In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Charles Prendergast was the brother of the well-known American painter Maurice Prendergast. Though primarily a maker of furniture and frames, Charles also produced paintings. Here, he approximates the look of a medieval panel painting, using tempera and gold leaf on a ground covered in gesso. Incised lines delineate the figures. While the subject draws from traditional images of the Annunciation, this is not a Christian image so much as a revelation of the spiritual in earthly things, a common preoccupation for the Arts and Crafts movement in which Prendergast participated.
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Sir Edward Burne-Jones — The Passing of Venus
Alexandre Séon (French, 1855–1917) — Study for “In the Woods
Gustave Miklos — Figure Motif
Gustav Klimt — The Hostile Powers, the Titan Typhoeus, the T
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes — Dramatic Poetry (Aeschylus)
Emile Hurtré|Jules C. Wielhorski — Design for a wall decorat
Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise|Eugène-Pierre Gourdet — Design
Richard Nicolaüs Roland Holst — Recollection
Gerard de Lairesse — Allegory of Charity
Philipp Otto Runge|Johann Adolph Darnstedt|Ephraim Gottlieb 
Manohar
Aristide Maillol (French, 1861–1944) — Two Bathers under a T
