Annunciation

We do not have much information about the painter Magnus Rüber, who was a lay brother of the Franciscan Order in Bamberg. He worked for the Franciscan monasteries in Amberg and Bamberg, for whose churches he painted several altarpieces. The signed painting, Annunciation to the Virgin is cultured copy after a print by Jan I Sadeler. The model for the copper engraving was a lost painting by Peter de Witte, called Candid created in Munich, most probably between 1586, when Candid arrived in Munich, and 1595, when Sadeler left the city.