Masters/Frans Schwartz/The Annunciation
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Mary sits hooded in profile at the left, and the angel appears to her as a face in a burst of light, rays streaming down. Schwartz leaves most of the paper bare, so the light seems to take over the room.
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Other masters in room 2, Be It unto Me:
Carl Bloch
The Annunciation, 1865–1879
Oil on copper
Museum of National History, Frederiksborg Castle
One of the 23 King's Oratory paintings
Frans Schwartz
The Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, 1915–1917
Oil on canvas
Image from the Bruun Rasmussen auction house, Copenhagen
James Tissot
The Annunciation, 1886–1894
Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper
Brooklyn Museum, purchased by public subscription (00.159.16)
Alexander Ivanov
The Annunciation, late 1840s–1858
Watercolor and pencil on paper (Biblical Sketches)
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
SMK, the National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Google MapsGoogle EarthImage: Wikimedia Commons (SMK, public domain). The work itself is in the public domain.
