![The Annunciation with Saint Francis and Saint Louis of Toulouse [four panels] by Cosmè Tura, c. 1470/1480, National Gallery of Art, Washington](/store/display/tura_the_annunciation_with_saint_francis_and_saint_louis.jpg)
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c. 1470/1480 · Tempera and distemper on panel · National Gallery of Art, Washington
For the Annunciation · 25 March
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All editionsFour narrow figures stand in a row, and one landscape runs behind them all, carrying on, darker, across the painted frames. Saint Francis holds his book; Gabriel comes with a lily; Our Lady presses her book to her body and lifts one hand; a bishop in a white mitre raises two fingers beside a curled staff. Between the second and the third the Word is made flesh, and the two stand a frame apart. The National Gallery of Art describes Francis's thin gold cross and the red wounds at his hands, feet and ribs. The bishop has changed names: from 1959 to 1985 the Gallery's catalogues named him Saint Maurelius, patron of Ferrara; he is now Louis of Toulouse, a prince who, as Smarthistory tells it, took Franciscan vows days before he was made bishop. Cosmè Tura sets a Franciscan at either end of the greeting.
Sources: National Gallery of Art, Washington, artist page 'Cosmè Tura', artworks list with image descriptions; read 2026-09-01. · National Gallery of Art, 'The Virgin Annunciate [middle right panel]', Cosmè Tura, 1952.2.6.c, bibliography · National Gallery of Art, 'The Annunciation with Saint Francis and Saint Louis of Toulouse [four panels]', Cosmè Tura, 1952.2.6.a-d · Smarthistory, 'Simone Martini, Saint Louis of Toulouse' · InFerrara — official tourism portal of the Comune di Ferrara, 'Basilica di San Giorgio' · Artsy, 'The Annunciation with Saint Francis and Saint Louis of Toulouse [middle left panel]', Cosmè Tura
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)
Every line above is reproduced from the holding institution’s own catalogue entry, which is linked. Where their title, date or attribution differs from ours, theirs is the one printed here.
| Artist | Cosmè Tura (Ferrarese, c. 1433–1495) |
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| Date | c. 1470/1480 |
| Museum | National Gallery of Art, Washington |
| Accession | 1952.2.6.a-d |
| Medium | Tempera and distemper on panel |
| Dimensions | NOT RETRIEVED for the four-panel ensemble. Single panel b (The Archangel Gabriel, middle left) 31 × 12.4 cm (12 3/16 × 4 7/8 in.), framed 43.5 × 16.8 × 4.4 cm |
| Sheet sizes | 8×10 in, 11×14 in, 16×20 in, 18×24 in, 24×36 in, 32×48 in, 40×60 in |
| Held by | National Gallery of Art, Washington · 1952.2.6.a-d the museum’s record |
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| Source file | the National Gallery of Art’s own open-access file (IIIF) |
| Licence | public domain; the file released under CC0 |
| Master | 11,431 × 7,265 px, the file our printer receives |
| Chain | Taken from the National Gallery of Art’s own open-access file (IIIF) on 1 September 2026; held as our print master. |
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 11,431 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.