St. Anne Instructing the Virgin

Title: St. Anne Instructing the Virgin; Link to Morgan resource
Alternative Title: St. Anne Instructing the Virgin from the Hours of Henry VIII
Creator: Jean Poyet
Subject: Books of hours--France--Tours--Illustrations.
1495-1505.
High Priest--Zacharias.
Landscape.
Scene, Secular--Instruction.
Virgin Mary--Infancy, Instruction.
Virgin Mary--Presentation.
Language: Latin
Date: c. 1500, Tours, France
Description: Anne is seen instructing Mary in a room with three unnamed women. Anne can be seen with a hand on Mary’s back, as a kneeling Mary reads from the texts.
Medium: Painting on vellum
Rights Holder: The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, New York
Provenance: Henry VIII (?); Charles Benoit Desmanet of Mons; George Wade; King George II of England gave it to the Royal Library of Hanover; King George III (who brought it to England in 1803; returned it to Hanover in 1816); King George IV; King William IV; Duke of Cumberland (Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, 1771-1851); George V, King of Hanover; Duke Ernest Augustus I (Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1845-1923); Duke Ernest Augustus II (Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1887-1953); Eisenmann (Heinrich Eisemann?); Joseph Baer; sold to Dannie H. Heineman by Graupe (Paul Graupe?) as a gift for his wife, Hettie Heineman; loaned to the Heineman Foundation in 1964; willed to the Foundation in 1974.