Albert Bouts (Netherlandish, 1451/55–1549)

Albert Bouts

The scene of the Annunciation to Mary that she will give birth to Christ is depicted here as a contemporary scene that may have been familiar to any viewer at the end of the 1400s. Mary is portrayed as an ordinary but wealthy woman who is interrupted by the Archangel Gabriel as she reads a book of hours. This type of book was enormously popular in the late Middle Ages as a prayer and devotional book, particularly among the wealthy, literate nobility, and city aristocracy.

Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 12, 1942-March 14, 1943).

Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection

Exhibition of the Month: Texture in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 6-December 8, 1947).

Exhibition of the Month: Texture in Art

Classic to Baroque: A Style Change in the Arts. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30-November 13, 1949).

Classic to Baroque: A Style Change in the Arts

35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951).

35th Anniversary Exhibition

Masterpieces of Flemish Art: Van Eyck to Bosch. Groeningemuseum, Bruges, Bruges, Belgium (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 26-September 11, 1960); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (co-organizer) (October 18-December 31, 1960).

Masterpieces of Flemish Art: Van Eyck to Bosch

Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965).

Juxtapositions

The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).

The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art

The Medieval Top Seller: The Book of Hours. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26, 2022-July 30, 2023).

The Medieval Top Seller: The Book of Hours

Old and Modern Masters, Knoedler &amp; Co., Gage Gallery, Cleveland, OH (1915).

Art Through the Ages, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 30 1931-November 29 1931).

The 20th Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibition of the Great Lakes Exposition, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 26 193-October 12 1936).

Masterpieces of Art, New York World's Fair, New York, NY (April 30, 1939-October 27, 1940).

Masterpieces of Art from the New York and San Francisco World's Fairs, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 7-March 7, 1940).

Le Siècle des Primitifs Flamands (Flanders in the Fifteenth Century): Exposition Organisée par l'Administration Communale de Bruges; Musée Communal des Beaux-Arts, Musée Groeninge, (26 June-11 September 1960); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan (October-December 1960).

A vertically oriented oil painting depicts the Virgin Mary standing next to an angel, both with light skin tone and blond curly hair, in a white-walled interior, a window with brown shutters and an ornate arch behind them. Mary wears rich blue robes subtly fringed in gold, her right hand is lifted while her left hand rests on the pages of an open book as she turns and looks down. The angel wears an ornate red and gold jewel-studded cloak over plain white robes, his right hand holding a clear shaft topped with gold.

[Sale: Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, April 19, 1887, Berlin Germany, no. 106]

Eugen Schweitzer (1888–1981), Berlin, Germany

John L. Severance (1863-1936), Cleveland, OH

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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