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Triptych altarpiece: winged angel greets a woman in red reading in a room; a man at a bench on the right; a couple at a door on the left.

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

A three-panel altarpiece with a winged angel entering a domestic interior where a woman in a red robe sits reading at a table beside a window. A kneeling man and a woman stand at a door in a walled garden on the left, while a man works at a bench in a workshop on the right. Oil on oak, with carved wooden frame.

Artist
Robert Campin
Date
ca. 1427–32
Medium
Oil on oak
Source
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Size
1959 × 996 px
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Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1437).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · 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, The Cloisters Collection, 1956

Español: Tríptico de la Anunciación (Retablo de Merode)

Un retablo de tres paneles con un ángel alado que entra a un interior doméstico, donde una mujer con túnica roja está sentada leyendo junto a una ventana. A la izquierda, un hombre y una mujer se ubican ante una puerta en un jardín amurallado; a la derecha, un hombre trabaja en un banco de taller.

Português: Tríptico da Anunciação (Retábulo de Merode)

Um retábulo de três painéis mostra um anjo alado entrando em um interior doméstico, onde uma mulher de manto vermelho lê sentada à mesa perto de uma janela. À esquerda, um homem e uma mulher aparecem diante de uma porta em um jardim murado; à direita, um homem trabalha em uma bancada de oficina.

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