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National Gallery of Art - THE COLLECTION
image of The Annunciation
Jan van Eyck (artist)
Netherlandish, c. 1390 - 1441
The Annunciation, c. 1434/1436
oil on canvas transferred from panel
painted surface: 90.2 x 34.1 cm (35 1/2 x 13 7/16 in.) support: 92.7 x 36.7 cm (36 1/2 x 14 7/16 in.) framed: 102.2 x 55.9 x 8.9 cm (40 1/4 x 22 x 3 1/2 in.)
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
1937.1.39
From the Tour: Netherlandish Painting in the 1400s
Object 3 of 9

Inscription

top of back wall to the right of furthest left figure: MOYSES F[I]SCELLA; above second figure from left: FI...PHARAONIS; on banderole: O IN... VS HEBREORVM HIC EST; on globe in window: ASIA (more inscriptions, see Hand/Wolff 1986, 76)

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