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WITTE Pieter de - known as Candido (After) Bruges...

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WITTE Pieter de - known as Candido (After) Bruges 1548- Munich 1628 The Annunciation Oil on panel. Oak. Two horizontal boards. Slightly curved. (Minor restorations; gaps and wear). H. 20.8 - L. 26.7 cm Related to a lost composition by Pieter de Witte, engraved by Jan Sadeler, and known from a two-part copperplate version (20 x 24 cm) in the Bergamo museum (Francesco Rossi, Academia Carrara. Bergamo. Catalogo dei dipinti, p. 115, no. 188 & 187 - Bergamo 1979) and a few rare early reproductions (Prague, Helsinki).