Virgin Mary: Presentation
Item
- Alternative Title
- Presentation of the Virgin from a Book of Hours
- Creator
- Master of Sir John Fastolf
- Subject
- Book of Hours, Virgin Mary, Bible, Floreate border, Virgin Mary - Presentation
- Language
- Latin
- Date
- c. 1440-1450 (London, England)
- Description
- Mary is seen kneeling with her mother, Anne and father, Joachim. The parents have decided to consecrate their daughter in service to God.
- Medium
- Painting on vellum.
- Rights Holder
- The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, New York
- Provenance
- Smithson family of Horsham, Sussex, and London (obituaries from 1640 to 1724 or 1725 on fol. 1v); Captain R.G. Berkeley; his sale, London, Sotheby's, Nov. 29, 1949, lot 21; bought there by Maggs Brothers Ltd., London for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
- Item sets
- Team 6 Items
