Annunciation (El Greco, Madrid) Explained

Annunciation
Artist:El Greco
Year:1609
Medium:oil on canvas
Height Metric:294
Width Metric:204
Museum:Private collection
City:Madrid

Annunciation is a 1609 work by El Greco, now in a private collection in Madrid. It is a variant on his work on the same theme as part of the Doña María de Aragón Altarpiece. The painter died in April 1614 and the work may have been completed by his son Jorge Manuel after that date. It is not an independent composition but a cut-down fragment of the whole, designed for and installed in the chapel of the Hospital de Tavera.[1]

Bibliography (in Spanish)

Notes and References

  1. Catalog nr. 173, in Tiziana Feti's catalog of El Greco paintings, 1969