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Triptych altarpiece: winged angel greets a woman in red reading in a room; a man at a bench on the right; a couple at a door on the left.

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

A three-panel altarpiece with a winged angel entering a domestic interior where a woman in a red robe sits reading at a table beside a window. A kneeling man and a woman stand at a door in a walled garden on the left, while a man works at a bench in a workshop on the right. Oil on oak, with carved wooden frame.

Artist
Robert Campin
Date
ca. 1427–32
Medium
Oil on oak
Source
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Size
1959 × 996 px
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Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1437).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection, 1956

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