St. Anne Instructing the Virgin
Item
- Alternative Title
- St. Anne Instructing the Virgin from the Hours of Henry VIII
- Creator
- Jean Poyet
- Subject
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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.
- Item sets
- Team 6 Items
- Media
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