European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection The Annunciate
Virgin, Saint Andrew with a Donor and His Sons, Saint Catherine
of Alexandria with a Donor and Her Daughters, and the Annunciate
Angel Wings from a triptych, made into four panelsMade in
Netherlands (historical name, 15th-16th century), Europe Early
16th century Jan Provost, Netherlandish (active Antwerp and
Bruges), first documented 1493, died 1529 Oil on panel Cat.
355John G. Johnson Collection, 1917 LabelThe Virgin and the
Angel Gabriel are painted in grisaille, shades of gray, to
imitate the appearance of sculpture in paint. They originally
adorned the exterior of an altarpiece when the wings were closed
. When open, the altarpiece would have contained a central image
flanked by the panels showing a family kneeling beneath their
patron saints. * Works in the collection are moved off view for
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