# Annunciation of the Death of the Virgin [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [HOOGSTRATEN, Samuel van]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 66 x 53 cm ## Commentary Annunciation of the Death of the Virgin c. 1670 Oil on canvas, 66 x 53 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting with an uncommon subject and comparatively small scale probably was painted for a private Catholic patron. Van Hoogstraten had worked for foreign Catholics and like other Protestant players in the Netherlands he also had Dutch Catholic clients and was capable of meeting their demands sympathetically. The present picture, like some other painted for Catholic patrons, may be placed within the tradition of "Dutch Classicism," which was rising about 1670 \(Gérard de Lairesse being a key representative\). ## Related artworks - [Letter Board]() - [Man Looking through a Window]() - [Mother with a Child in a Wicker Cradle]() - [Portrait of a Gentleman]() - [Portrait of Johan Cornelisz. Vijgeboom and His Wife]() - [Self-Portrait]() - [Self-Portrait]() - [The Anaemic Lady]() - [Tobias's Farewell to his Parents]() - [Tromp-l'oeil Still-Life]() - [Trompe-l'oeil Still-Life]() - [Two Women by a Cradle]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()