Leaf from the Life of the Virgin: Annunciation to Joachim and Anna

Description This illuminated folio shows the Annunciation to Joachim and Anna. Joachim and Anna with hands in prayer are leaving a city. A tree is represented in the middle. A flying angel appears in the sky in front of them.

Provenance Congregatione de Sancto Domenego de Bologna, Bologna, ca. 1500 [fol. 1v flyleaf]; Abbate mateo Canonici [collection no. 300]; Rev. Walter Sneyd, 1835, by purchase [circular bookplate on front flyleaf]; Rev. Walter Sneyd Sale, London, 1903, no. 481; Bernard (?)] Quaritch, 1903, by purchase; Olschki Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1907, by purchase [invoice Nov. 24, 1905; described in a letter of Dec. 20, 1906]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1907