These sculptures of the angel Gabriel and the Virgin, carved in the so-called “Beautiful Style” of central Europe, are related to works of the Master of Grosslobming, whose sculptures (now in Vienna and Frankfurt collections) originate from the Church of Saint Lambert in Grosslobming, Austria.
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The Annunciation Group (L-R: 22.60.1, .2)
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Title:The Angel Gabriel from an Annunciation Group
Date:ca. 1390
Culture:Austrian
Medium:Limestone with traces of paint
Dimensions:30 7/8 × 19 × 11 in. (78.4 × 48.3 × 27.9 cm) as a group with 22.60.2: 40 3/8 × 39 × 12 in. (102.6 × 99.1 × 30.5 cm)
Classification:Sculpture-Stone
Credit Line:The Bequest of Michael Dreicer, 1921
Accession Number:22.60.2
Michael Dreicer, New York (until 1922)
Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere. "Meister von Grosslobuing," May 17–September 6, 1994.
Schmitt, Otto, and Georg Swarzenski. Meisterwerke der Bildhauerkunst in Frankfurter Privatbesitz. Frankfurt: Frankfurter Kunstverein, 1921. p. 15.
Breck, Joseph. "The Michael Dreicer Collection." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, o.s., 17, no. 5 (May 1922). p. 109.
"List of Accessions and Loans." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, o.s., 17, no. 5 (May 1922). p. 118.
Rubenstein, Stella. "An Annunciation Group in the Michael Dreicer Collection." Art in America 10, no. 11 (February 1922). pp. 57–63.
"La collection Michael Dreicer au Musée métropolitain de New-York." Revue archéologique 15 (January-June 1922). p. 342.
Kieslinger, Franz. Zur Geschichte der gotischen Plastik in Österreich. Vol. 1. Vienna: Krystall-Verlag, 1923. p. 28.
Kris, Ernst. "Über eine gotische Georg-Statue und ihre nächsten Verwandten." Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien, New Series, 4 (1930). pp. 142–44, fig. 156.
Seiberl, Herbert. "Die österreichische Plastik von etwa 1400 bis zum Ausgange der Spätgotik." In Die bildende Kunst in Österreich. Vol. 3. Baden bei Wien: R. Rohrer, 1938. pp. 75–76.
Feulner, Adolf. "Der Meister der Schönen Madonnen." Zeitschrift des Deutschen Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft 10 (1943). pp. 45–6.
Kutal, Albert. "České sochařství kolem r. 1400 a alpské země." Umění 5 (1957). pp. 303, 305, 308.
Swoboda, Karl. Gotik in Böhmen: Geschichte, Gesellschaftsgeschichte, Architektur, Plastik und Malerei. Munich: Prestel, 1969. p. 134.
Schultes, Lothar. "Der Meister von Grosslobming und die Wiener Plastik des schönen Stils." Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte 39 (1986). pp. 26–27, 28, fig. 18.
Simonin, Pierre. "Retables sculptés gothiques et de la première Renaissance en Lorraine." Lotharingia: Archives lorraines d'archéologie, d'art et d'histoire 2 (1990).
Frodl-Kraft, Eva. "The Stained Glass from Ebreichsdorf and the Austrian 'Ducal Workshop'." In The Cloisters: Studies in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary, edited by Elizabeth C. Parker. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992. pp. 398–99, fig. 14, accession number incorrectly given as 22.60.2.
Der Meister von Grosslobming: Österreichische Galerie 1994. Vienna: Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere, 1994. no. 25, p. 139, fig. 25.
Schultes, Lothar. "Der Meister von Grosslobming und die österreichische Kunst der späten 14. Jahrhunderts." In Der Meister von Grosslobming: Österreichische Galerie 1994. Vienna: Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere, 1994. p. 37.
Oberhaidacher, Jörg. "Eine Skulptur in Rimini aus dem Umkreis des Meisters von Grosslobming." Österreichische Zeitschrift für Kunst und Denkmalpflege 50 (1996). pp. 183–4, fig. 201.
Castelnuovo, Enrico, and Francesca De Gramatica, ed. Il gotico nelle Alpi, 1350–1450. Trent: Castello del Buonconsiglio, 2002. pp. 572, 574–75.
Wixom, William D. "Late Medieval Sculpture in the Metropolitan: 1400 to 1530." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, n.s., 64, no. 4 (Spring 2007). p. 8.
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