The Annunciation by Henry Ossawa Tanner

The son of a minister, Henry Ossawa Tanner specialized in religious subjects, and with "The Annunciation" he created an unconventional image of the moment when the angel Gabriel announces to Mary the forthcoming birth of her son, Jesus. Tanner entered this painting in the 1898 Paris Salon exhibition, after which it was bought for the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1899, making it his first work to enter a museum in the United States.