# The Annunciation, in Hans Memling

Hans Memling painted this in 1480–89, aged about 50. It is now at The Met in New York.

[Read the full label](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-annunciation-met-459055#about-work)

## The work

- Date: 1480–89
- Medium: Oil on panel, transferred to canvas
- Dimensions: 30 1/8 x 21 1/2 in. (76.5 x 54.6 cm)
- Type: Paintings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.1.113
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Hans Memling](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/hans-memling), Netherlandish, c. 1430–1494

Memling, born in Germany, probably trained in Brussels with Rogier van der Weyden before settling in Bruges in 1465, where he became the city’s leading painter.

4 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Hans Memling's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-hans-memling?hang=749) (8 works)
- [More Early Netherlandish art](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/early-netherlandish-art?hang=749) (16 works)
- [15th-century Netherlands](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/15-netherlands?hang=749) (12 works)

## Get it

- [Print this work](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-annunciation-met-459055#print)
- Free download, full resolution: https://img.ochreeditions.com/m/1253.jpg?dl=1
- [The work's page](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-annunciation-met-459055)