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Painting of the Annunciation: a winged angel in a patterned gold and red robe greets the Virgin in blue beside a red bed and a window onto a courtyard.

The Annunciation, Hans Memling, ca. 1465–70

An angel in a richly patterned crimson and gold cope with green-edged wings kneels at left, hand raised in greeting, while the Virgin Mary sits in a blue mantle beside a lectern with an open book and a white lily. A red canopied bed and an arched window opening onto a courtyard fill the background, rendered in oil on wood with fine detail.

Artist
Hans Memling
Date
ca. 1465–70
Medium
Oil on wood
Source
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Size
2425 × 3878 px
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Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1475).
Rights checked 2026-11-04 · 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, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917

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