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The Annunciation — Dieric Bouts
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The Annunciation

Dieric Bouts (Netherlandish, about 1415–1475)
Date about 1450–1455
Collection J. Paul Getty Museum
Subject Annunciation
Season Advent
Master 6,597 px
License PD/CC0

Sizes

18×24 in$140
sheet 18×24 in · image 18×21.3 in · archival margin · 309 dpi
24×36 in$190
sheet 24×36 in · image 24×28.4 in · archival margin · 232 dpi
32×48 in$340
sheet 32×48 in · image 32×37.9 in · archival margin · 174 dpi
40×60 in$480
sheet 40×60 in · image 40×47.4 in · archival margin · 139 dpi
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About this painting

Gabriel points upward, to a circular window and the God behind it; Mary does not look. She sits on the bare tiled floor rather than a throne, eyes down, hands lifted in the surprise of Luke's sentence — you shall conceive and bear a son. The Getty is careful about the red hanging above her: it may forecast the Passion, or Bouts may simply have used a colour he liked elsewhere, and the museum declines to decide. The panel is a fragment of a larger argument, one of five from a polyptych on the life of Christ.

Sources: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 'The Annunciation', object 85.PA.24; object page read 2026-08-27.

And the angel being come in, said unto her: Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.

Luke 1:28 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js

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Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 6,597 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.