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Shortly after the Jesuits had founded a Fraternity in Antwerp in 1609, Rubens painted an altarpiece of 'The Annunciation' for their chapel, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. This was reproduced in an engraving by Schelte à Bolswert with some changes of detail and format. The sketch in the Ashmolean, which corresponds closely to the print, must be the model painted by Rubens for the engraver. As the print seems to have been made some years after the altarpiece, the painting, too, must be later in date.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Oxford

Title

The Annunciation

Date

c. 1609

Medium

oil on panel

Measurements

H 44 x W 33 cm

Accession number

WA1855.222

Acquisition method

Presented by Chambers Hall, 1855

Work type

Painting

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Beaumont Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 2PH England

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Artist or maker

Peter Paul Rubens

1577–1640

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