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Alfred Agache depicts the Virgin wearing a fine black mantilla as she calmly receives the stunning news of her impending motherhood. Most unusually, she's not in a closed room or garden, as is typical, but sitting by a low white wall with a view of boats on the sea (Annunciation, 1891)

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