Circle Of Gaspar De Crayer (antwerp, 1582 - Ghent, 1662), Annunciation

Circle of Gaspar de Crayer (Antwerp, 1582 - Ghent, 1662)
Annunciation
Oil on copper, cm 38.5 x 29
With frame, cm 53 x 45.5

The present copper depicts the typical iconography of the annunciation that was consolidated during the four and five hundred. To separate the two characters ideologically is not only the lily, symbolic reference to the virginity and purity of what will be the mother of God, but also a real piece of still life: vase decorated with grotesque flowers of different colors species. The divine and spiritual character of the scene is underlined by the cover of golden clouds that accompany the angel and some groups of cherubim who witness the event. The top of the composition that closes the vertical created by the flower pot and the bouquet of lilies is the dove of the Holy Spirit.
Stylistically the work can be counted among the evidence of an artist from the circle of Gaspar de Crayer.
Artist born in Antwerp in 1582, studied painting with Michel Coxcie and then at the academy of Saint Luc in Brussels, where he remained until 1660, before settling permanently in Ghent where he died in 1662.
Crayer was one of the most productive and conscientious painters of the late Flemish school, an epigone of Pieter Paul Rubens from whom he derived several iconographic motifs, and of Antoon van Dyck for his attention to detail. He was a painter appreciated by the archdukes of Austria and Isabella Clara Eugenia d'Asburgo, rulers of the Catholic Netherlands, who always treated him with great respect. To confirm this estimate, the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Habsburg, brother of King Philip IV and governor of the Southern Netherlands after the death of his aunt Isabella Clara Eugenia, appointed him as his official painter.
His paintings are found in large quantities in churches and museums in Brussels and Ghent, with practically no chapel in Flanders or Brabant that does not claim to own his canvases. However, he was also renowned outside his native country and some of his works can be found further south in Aix-en-Provence and Amberg in the Upper Palatinate.
His skill as a decorative artist is evidenced by the panels made for the triumphal arch built for the entry of Ferdinand of Habsburg in the Flemish capital after the victory at the Battle of Nördlingen. Some of these panels are currently on display in the Museum of Ghent. His best works are. The miraculous fishing, preserved in the gallery of Brussels, The judgment of Solomon in the gallery of Ghent and the Madonnas with Saints currently at the Louvre, the pinacoteca of Monaco and the Belvedere of Vienna.

The object is in good condition

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