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NICOLAS BEATRIZET (1507/15-1573) AFTER MARCELLO VENUSTI (CIRCA 1512-1579) AFTER MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI (1475-1564)
The Annunciation
engraving, circa 1550-1560, on laid paper, watermark Fleur-de-Lys (Woodward 95-96, Venice, 1566), a very good impression of the second state (of three), with the Virgin's halo shaded, but before Lafrery's address
Plate & Sheet 307 x 431 mm.
Provenance
Sir Mark Masterman Sykes (1771-1823), Sledmere House, York (Lugt 1897); his sale, Sotheby's, London, 24 May 1824 (and following days), lot 445 ('First impression'; with one other).
William Esdaile (1758-1837), London (Lugt 2617); his sale, Christie's, London, 26-29 June 1840, lot 436 (with The Ascension; £ 3-0, to Smith).
With P. & D. Colnaghi, London (their stock number C.40053 verso); their Mannerist catalogue, 1974, no. 74.
Literature
Bartsch 12
Special notice
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Beatrizet presents the Annunciation in an articulated, pattern-like interior. The print differs slightly from the painted version by Marcello Venusti in the sacristy of San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome. The original composition by Michelangelo, preserved at the Uffizi, Florence (inv. no. 229F) lacks the background architecture entirely.

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