Jan van Eyck · c. 1434–36
The Annunciation
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In a tall church interior the archangel Gabriel, in a jewelled red-and-gold cope with rainbow wings, greets the Virgin in blue, who turns from her book with raised hands as the dove descends on rays of light from a high window; a lily stands beside a red cushion in the foreground. National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Up to 8 × 21.1 in · portrait
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of The Annunciation
The Annunciation was painted around 1434–1436 and is thought to have been the left inner wing of a triptych whose other wings have not been seen since before 1817; originally on panel, it has been transferred to canvas. Gabriel's words AVE GRA PLENA ('Hail, full of grace') are inscribed beside him, and Mary's reply ECCE ANCILLA D[OMI]NI is written upside down, because it is addressed to God. The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit descend to her on seven rays of light from the upper window, with the dove following the same path. The panel was bought by the Tsar of Russia for the Hermitage and was sold by Stalin's government in 1930.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jan van Eyck
Jan van Eyck was an early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges who was one of the early innovators of what became known as Early Netherlandish painting, and one of the supreme figures of the Early Northern Renaissance. Such was his legacy, that he has been called “the inventor of oil-painting” by Vasari, Ernst Gombrich, and others, although this claim is now considered an oversimplification.
All Jan van Eyck prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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