Annunciation (Jean Cocteau as Archangel Gabrel and Edith de Beaumont as Virgin Mary) Villa Croisset Grasse
Artist
Jean Cocteau
(French, 1889 - 1963)
CultureFrench
DateJanuary 1918
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 2 15/16 × 3 7/8 in. (7.5 × 9.8 cm)
Overall, Support (sheet): 3 9/16 × 4 7/16 in. (9 × 11.3 cm)
Overall, Support (sheet): 3 9/16 × 4 7/16 in. (9 × 11.3 cm)
InscribedEdith de Beaumont
J. Cocteau in pencil on verso Top Center
Credit LineMuseum purchase in memory of Ann and Sol B. Frank
Object number2023.11
Not on view
DescriptionThis small black-and-white photograph shows two people posing against a Romanesque building, acting out the Annunciation of the birth of Christ by the Angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary.Label TextJean Cocteau, French 1889 – 1963 Annunciation (Jean Cocteau as Archangel Gabriel and Edith de Beaumont as the Virgin Mary), Villa Croisset, Grasse, January 1918 Gelatin silver print Museum purchase in memory of Ann and Sol B. Frank 2023.11ProvenanceProbably André Gide, 1918 Pierre Bergé Associés, Paris, March 19, 2015, lot 274, bought in. Ader, Paris, January 2, 2023, lot 187 (bought in). Exhibition HistoryPierre Chanel, Album Cocteau (Paris: Henri Veyrier-Tschou, 1979) p. 40 (variant)
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Guercino)
1624
