About this work
Joachim and Hanna pray for a child near a tall tree with birds in its branches
Original catalogue wording
1. Joachim and Hanna pray for a child near a tall tree with birds in its branches | 2. An angel appears to Hanna and to Joachim
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 011. Joachim and Hanna pray for a child near a tall tree with birds in its branchesPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-left
How Joachim and Hanna grieved
- 022. An angel appears to Hanna and to JoachimPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-right
How an angel spoke with them sayingn "You will bear a daughter, your prayer has come before God"
- Source date
- 1667-1706
- Date evidence
- The PEMM project records its date evidence as “Date from catalog”.
- Holding institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Shelfmark
- 2002.4
- Folio
- 28v
- Recorded provenance
- Originally sold to Sam Fogg, Sam Fogg Rare Books and Manuscripts, London, by 1998 [research report in curatorial file; Fogg and Hosking, 2001, no. 19]; sold to the Art Institute, 2002. Catalog by Getatchew Haile in PEMM Dropbox
- Place evidence
- Place recorded or purchased, as stated by the source. It is not treated as the place of production.
- Catalogue source
- Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project
- Source record
- paintings.csv, Painting ID 1785 (2 episode rows)