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Angel of the Annunciation
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After Carlo Dolci
Angel of the Annunciation
oil on canvas
canvas: 28 ⅝ by 23 ½ in.; 72.7 by 59.7 cm.
framed: 37 ¾ by 31 ¾ in.; 95.9 by 80.6 cm.
With Philpot & Jackson, Florence;
Thereafter acquired by the present owner.
This work is an eighteenth-century copy of Dolci's Angel of the Annunciation.1 The original formed the pendant to Dolci's Virgin Annunciate. Both were popular compositions and widely reproduced.2
1 Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, inv. no. San Marco e Cenacoli, no. 61. See F. Baldassari, Carlo Dolci, Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, Florence 2015, pp. 214-215, cat. no. 111, reproduced.
2 Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, inv. no. San Marco e Cenacoli, no. 62. See F. Baldassari, Carlo Dolci, Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, Florence 2015, p. 215, cat. no. 112, reproduced.
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