Annunciation (Uccello)

Annunciation is a gold and tempera on panel painting by Paolo Uccello executed c. 1425.

It is now in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, to which it was given by William Thomas Herner Fox-Strangways in 1850.

An 18th century label on the reverse links the painting to Pesello and gives it the catalogue number 22.

In 1938 Mario Salmi attributed it to Dello Delli, while in 1975 Parronchi argued it was an early work by Alesso Baldovinetti.

However, it took until 1980 for Carlo Volpe to prove conclusively that it was an early work by Uccello by comparison with his Beccuto Madonna, although in 2002 Boskovits argued it came slightly later in Uccello's career, possibly the mid-1420s and his stay in Venice.