The Annunciation, with Gabriel at left and the Virgin at right
Medium
Etching and engraving in red ink
Dimensions
Plate: 10 1/16 × 13 11/16 in. (25.5 × 34.7 cm) Sheet: 11 15/16 × 17 3/8 in. (30.3 × 44.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1941
Accession Number
41.128.9
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Benigno Bossi|Correggio (Antonio Allegri) · 1727–1792
**Benigno Bossi** (1727–1792) was an Italian engraver, painter, and stucco artist born in Arcisate near Milan. He was the son of Pietro Luigi Bossi, a noted artist. Intended for painting studies under Pompeo Batoni, Bossi instead followed advice from Anton Raphael Mengs and Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich to focus on engraving after Batoni’s death. He spent time in Nuremberg and Dresden before t...