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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 6, 2025 | Sotheby's | New York | Master Paintings Part I | 325 | $****** - ****** | Annunciation | |||
Jul 9, 2014 | Sotheby's | London | Old Master & British Paintings Evening Sale | 55 | $****** - ****** | The Annunciation |
paintings
42 x 31.4 cm (16.54 x 12.36 in)
oil on panel
Ida Cohen (1853-1930; née Kuhn), Frankfurt;
Thence by descent to her daughter, Emilie Borchardt (1877-1948; née Cohen), Cairo;
Borchardt-Cohen"sche Stiftung, Schaffhausen, 1931;
By whom anonymously sold, Lucerne, Galerie Fischer, 24 May 1941, lot 1027 (as School of Rubens);
Where acquired by Charles Albert de Burlet (1882-1956), Basel;
Private collection, Zurich, by 1953 and until at least 1980;
With Noortman Master Paintings, Maastricht, circa 2001-2004;
By whom sold in association with Bob Haboldt & Co., New York, to a private collector, Switzerland, by 2004;
By whom sold, London, Sotheby"s, 9 July 2014, lot 55;
Where acquired by the present collector.
Basel, Kunstmuseum, long-term loan, prior to 1941;
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans, Olieverfschetsen van Rubens , 19 December 1953 - 14 February 1954, no. 59 (lent from a private collection, Zurich);
Antwerp, Rubenshuis, long-term loan, 2004 - 2009.
"Notices," in Bulletin Museum Boymans Rotterdam 4, no. 2 (October 1953), p. 61, reproduced fig. 28;
Olieverfschetsen van Rubens , exhibition catalogue, E. Haverkamp-Begemann (ed.), Rotterdam 1953, n.p., cat. no. 59, reproduced fig. 61;
M. Jaffé, "Rubens at Rotterdam," in Burlington Magazine 96, no. 611 (February 1954), p. 57, reproduced fig. 24;
J. S. Held, The Oil Sketches of Peter Paul Rubens: A Critical Catalogue , Princeton 1980, vol. I, pp. 441-442, cat. no. 318; vol. II, reproduced pl. 315;
M. Jaffé, Rubens, Catalogo completo , Milan 1989, p. 306, cat. no. 918, reproduced;
H. Devisscher, in Rubens , exhibition catalogue, H. Devisscher and H. Vlieghe (eds.), Paris and Ghent 2004, p. 159, under cat. no. 84, reproduced fig. 84a;
H. Devisscher, The Annunciation, A New Oil Sketch For the Rubenshuis , Antwerp 2004, n.p.;
Singular Vision: Habolt & Co."s Old Master Paintings and Drawings Since 1983 , Amsterdam 2012, p. 96, reproduced;
H. Devisscher and H. Vlieghe, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard , Part V (1), The Life of Christ before the Passion, The Youth of Christ , London and Turnhout 2014, vol. I, p. 38, under cat. no. 3, p. 39, cat. no. 3a; vol. II, reproduced fig. 11;
C. Kasper-Holtkotte, Orientalistische Netzwerke, Judenverfolgung und das Leben der Frankfurter Jüdin Mimi Borchardt, Berlin 2017, p. 45 note 163.
Property from an Important European Collection
Sir Peter Paul Rubens
Siegen 1577 - 1640 Antwerp
Annunciation
oil on panel
panel: 16 ½ by 12 ⅜ in.; 42.0 by 31.4 cm
framed: 22 ½ by 17 ¾ in.; 57.1 by 48.0 cm
