A member of the Society of Friends of the Fogg Art Museum has just purchased an early 15-century Spanish "Annunciation," by the little-known master, Juan de Burges, and has sent it to the Museum as a permanent loan.
The picture comes from the collection of Sir Charles Robinson and was publicly exhibited in 1880 at the Royal Academy, in 1908 at the Burlington, Fine Arts Club, and in 1913 at the Grafton Galleries, London. The original carved frame of an elaborate Gothic design is presented in all its beauty. The picture is signed beneath the figure of the Angel of the Annunciation on a cartellino: Maestre jude Burgos pitor." The picture is made up of two doors of a triptych altar-piece and the figures are painted in temperaon a gold ground punctured with elaborate foliated work.
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