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TITLE:
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The Annunciation in the background, through the open doorway, the Visitation
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MATERIALS:
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Painting on glass
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MARKINGS:
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stamped twice on the back of the original ebonised wood frame and once on the backing board with letters CA, with old printed label numbered 3036
Marked, top right, with a comet or sun-like device, perhaps for the workshop, inscribed on the initial lines of the volume in the Virgins hand O.Gen Inv(?) Henr G
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SIZE:
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40 x 50.5 cm
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REGION:
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German
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PRICE*:
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Contact Gallery for Price
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DESCRIPTION:
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South German or Prague, early 17th century
The reverse with sepia and tones of red applied in a painterly technique, worked lightly to simulate engraving against a gilded ground; the Angels lilies, the dove and the sky seen through the doorway backed silvering
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PROVENANCE:
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Katharina Schratt, Bad Ischl, Austria
The provenance is of great interest in that the beautiful actress Katherina Schratt was for some years the mistress of the Emperor Franz Josef
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