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Study for the Annunciation
Henry Ossawa Tanner (born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937)
ca. 1898
- Medium
- oil on wood
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- 8 1/2 x 10 3/4 in. (21.5 x 27.4 cm.)
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Robbins
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
In this painting the vertical line of white paint on the left represents the divine presence of the angel who will tell Mary that she bears the Son of God. The finished painting made from this study was well received in Paris and was Henry Ossawa Tanner’s first work to be acquired by an American museum.
