VOUET, Simon
(b. 1590, Paris, d. 1649, Paris)

Annunciation

1640s
Oil on canvas, 121 x 86 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

The conception is on a subtle diagonal from the window down Mary's red robe, echoed by the bodies of the hovering large angels. Mary hears, but does not see, the archangel Gabriel.