The Annunciation

Description For more information on this painting, please see Federico Zeri's 1976 catalogue no. 259, p. 384.

Exhibitions

• Old Mistresses: Women Artists of the Past. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1972.
• Lavinia Fontana, 1552-1614. Museo Civico Archaeologico di Bologna, Bologna. 1994.

Provenance Marquess Filippo Marignoli, Rome and Spoleto, until 1898 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Marquess Francesco Marignoli, 1898 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome, 1899 [mode of acquisition unknown] [1900 catalogue supplement: no. 36]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Transcription] On the base of the Virgin's chair: LAVINIA | FONT. FA[CIEBAT]

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902