Aix Annunciation

Aix Annunciation
ArtistBarthélemy d'Eyck
Year1443–1445
TypeSeveral techniques on panel
LocationVarious museums

The Aix Annunciation is a painting attributed to the Barthélemy d'Eyck or the so-called Master of the Annunciation of Aix-en-Provence. Executed in 1443-1445, it was originally placed in the Cathédrale Saint-Sauveur, Aix-en-Provence, southern France. Now it is divided between the Église de la Madeleine in the same city (central panel with the Annunciation), the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (part of the left panel with the prophet Isaiah) at Rotterdam, the Rijksmuseum of Amsterdam (upper part of the left panel), while the right panel is in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels. Side panels are painted on both sides, showing Christ on the right and Mary Magdalene on the left (the upper part, on reverse of the Amsterdam panel, does not survive); together they used to form a Noli me tangere scene when the triptych was folded shut.

Jeremiah panel, and its reverse, showing Christ (now at Brussels).
Mary Magdalene, on reverse of the lower part of the Isaiah panel (now at Rotterdam)
Still life with books, upper portion of the Isaiah panel (now in the Rijksmuseum).

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