The 50 plates / Plate 31 of 50
Plate 31 of 50
Angel of the Annunciation
Verkündigungsengel
Filippino Lippi
Not yet located
The drawing
A sheet of studies depicting winged angels in elaborate, flowing Renaissance garments. The upper-left figure kneels with head bowed, holding a slender stem, while two larger angels occupy the lower half of the sheet, their wings and billowing drapery explored through energetic pen strokes. Smaller sketches at upper right examine additional poses and movements.
Becker, 1922
As Felix Becker published it in 1922.
- Attribution
- Filippino Lippi
- Title as printed
- Verkündigungsengel
- Title in English
- Angel of the Annunciation
- Medium and size
- Pen and brown ink, 27.5 × 19.7 cm
- Inscription
- Later inscription “Leonardo da Vinci”
- Collection in 1922
- Julius Böhler jun., Munich
Today
Modern cataloguing and the drawing’s whereabouts, as far as they are known.
- Status
- Not yet located
- Where is it now?
- Not yet located. No post-Becker museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing.
- Attribution today
- Filippino Lippi, as attributed by Becker. The reproduction bears a handwritten inscription along the lower edge reading approximately “Leonardo da vinci,” but this should not be treated as evidence of Leonardo's authorship. No independent modern attribution of this exact sheet has been established.
The sheet in this copy
Sources
- Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister in Privatsammlungen (Leipzig, 1922), plate 31.
- No later museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing so far.