Paintings for Dusty Blue Walls (page 36)

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Paintings built around the opposite color, which stand out against this wall. The truest opposites come first. Showing 1,681 to 1,728 of 1,938.

The painting depicts a stately building complex from an elevated point. The buildings are large, with white, ivy-covered walls and dark, peaked roofs.

Bernardo Bellotto The Fortress of Königstein: Courtyard with the Magdalenenburg, 1756-1758 National Gallery of Art

A man and woman stand in a sunny field near a line of cone-shaped haystacks under a massive blue sky in this horizontal landscape painting. The scene is loosely painted with visible brushstrokes throughout.

Camille Pissarro Landscape, Ile-de-France, 1873 National Gallery of Art

The Loire, Alfred Sisley, 1896, oil on canvas

Alfred Sisley The Loire, 1896 Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of a Lady, Frans Hals, 1627, oil on canvas

Frans Hals Portrait of a Lady, 1627 Art Institute of Chicago

A young girl with pale skin, rosy cheeks, and blond hair stands facing us in front of a landscape with forests and mountains in this vertical portrait painting. The girl looks at us with wide, gray eyes under delicately arched eyebrows.

Francisco de Goya María Teresa de Borbón y Vallabriga, later Condesa de Chinchón, 1783 National Gallery of Art

A young man with smooth, pale peachy skin and long blond hair looks over his right shoulder at us in this vertical portrait painting. He has light green eyes, a straight nose, full pink lips, and a narrow chin.

Raphael Bindo Altoviti, c. 1515 National Gallery of Art

We look down onto a plaza with a sliver of a tall building rising along the left edge of the painting, a row of verdant, green trees to our right, and a row of buildings enclosing the space in the distance in this nearly square landscape…

Camille Pissarro Place du Carrousel, Paris, 1900 National Gallery of Art

Shown from the lap up, a pale-skinned woman looks off to the left in front of a vivid green background in this vertical portrait painting.

Lucas Cranach the Elder Portrait of a Woman, 1522 National Gallery of Art

An elegantly dressed man and woman ride horses toward us and to our right in a landscape with low, rolling hills, stone buildings, and trees in this horizontal painting. The two horses and riders take up the right half of the composition.

Aelbert Cuyp Lady and Gentleman on Horseback, c. 1655, reworked 1660/1665 National Gallery of Art

The Sea, John Frederick Kensett, 1872, oil on canvas

John Frederick Kensett The Sea, 1872 The Met

Madame Henri François Riesener (Félicité Longrois, 1786–1847), Eugène Delacroix, 1835, oil on canvas

Eugène Delacroix Madame Henri François Riesener (Félicité Longrois, 1786–1847), 1835 The Met

Rear Admiral George W. Melville, Thomas Eakins, 1905, oil on canvas

Thomas Eakins Rear Admiral George W. Melville, 1905 National Gallery of Art

Passing off of the Storm, John Frederick Kensett, 1872, oil on canvas

John Frederick Kensett Passing off of the Storm, 1872 The Met

Painting of a basket of green and red-yellow apples spilling over into a white cloth placed on a wooden table, with a dark green bottle and a plate of pale biscuits behind.

Paul Cézanne The Basket of Apples, c. 1893 Art Institute of Chicago

A windmill stands on a promontory cutting into a waterway under a partially stormy sky in this square landcape painting.

Rembrandt van Rijn The Mill, 1645/1648 National Gallery of Art

Te burao (The Hibiscus Tree), Paul Gauguin, 1892, oil on canvas

Paul Gauguin Te burao (The Hibiscus Tree), 1892 Art Institute of Chicago

We are eye-level on a beach with half a dozen ships in view, sitting on the ground against a gray sky in this vertical landscape oil painting created with broad, unblended strokes.

Eugène Boudin Low Tide, Sailboats Run Aground, 1885-1890 National Gallery of Art

Clouds, Thomas Cole, ca. 1838, oil on paper laid down on canvas

Thomas Cole Clouds, ca. 1838 The Met

Sellar Alp, Dolomites, John Singer Sargent, ca. 1913–14, watercolor and gouache on white wove paper

John Singer Sargent Sellar Alp, Dolomites, ca. 1913–14 The Met

Samuel Mifflin, Charles Willson Peale, 1777–80, oil on canvas

Charles Willson Peale Samuel Mifflin, 1777–80 The Met

This painting depicts a landscape with rolling green hills viewed from an elevated perspective. Closest to us, the light green hills on the left are covered with yellowish grass.

Kenyon Cox Flying Shadows, 1883 National Gallery of Art

Arleux-Palluel, The Bridge of Trysts, Camille Corot, 1871–72, oil on canvas

Camille Corot Arleux-Palluel, The Bridge of Trysts, 1871–72 Art Institute of Chicago

Moss-green land rising to a tree-topped bluff follows the curve of a sandy beach surrounding a pale blue cove in this horizontal landscape painting.

Camille Corot Beach near Etretat, c. 1872 National Gallery of Art

Alfred Dedreux (1810–1860) as a Child, Théodore Géricault, ca. 1819–20, oil on canvas

Théodore Géricault Alfred Dedreux (1810–1860) as a Child, ca. 1819–20 The Met

Brace's Rock, Eastern Point, Gloucester, Fitz Henry Lane, c. 1864, oil on canvas

Fitz Henry Lane Brace's Rock, Eastern Point, Gloucester, c. 1864 National Gallery of Art

Lieven Willemsz van Coppenol (born about 1599, died 1671 or later), Rembrandt van Rijn, 1648, oil on oak

Rembrandt van Rijn Lieven Willemsz van Coppenol (born about 1599, died 1671 or later), 1648 The Met

Édouard Manet Portrait of a Lady, c. 1879 National Gallery of Art

Dawn—Early Spring, Dwight William Tryon, 1894, oil on wood

Dwight William Tryon Dawn—Early Spring, 1894 The Met

Curiosity, Gerard ter Borch, ca. 1660–62, oil on canvas

Gerard ter Borch Curiosity, ca. 1660–62 The Met

Elie Williams, Charles Willson Peale, 1789, oil on canvas

Charles Willson Peale Elie Williams, 1789 The Met

Fantastic Landscape, Francesco Guardi, ca. 1765, oil on canvas

Francesco Guardi Fantastic Landscape, ca. 1765 The Met

The painting shows a coastal landscape from an elevated point of view. A structure resembling a thatched-roof cottage is on the right, partially obscured by the rolling green hills that take up the bottom right area of the painting.

Henri Moret The Island of Raguenez, Brittany, 1890/1895 National Gallery of Art

Rushing Water, John Singer Sargent, ca. 1901–7, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on white wove paper

John Singer Sargent Rushing Water, ca. 1901–7 The Met

Two men wearing brief-like shorts, shoes, and boxing gloves curl toward each other as they grapple in the middle of a boxing ring in this horizontal painting. We look at the ring from across the heads of the crowd below and around us.

George Bellows Club Night, 1907 National Gallery of Art

Venetian Glass Workers, John Singer Sargent, 1880–82, oil on canvas

John Singer Sargent Venetian Glass Workers, 1880–82 Art Institute of Chicago

Mary Cassatt Girl Arranging Her Hair, 1886 National Gallery of Art

Two bottles, a carafe, drinking glass, plate, knife, and loaf of bread are arranged on a table covered with a white cloth in this horizontal still-life painting. The narrow table angles from the lower left toward the wall to our right.

Claude Monet Still Life with Bottle, Carafe, Bread, and Wine, c. 1862/1863 National Gallery of Art

Gideon Tucker, William Sidney Mount, 1830, oil on canvas

William Sidney Mount Gideon Tucker, 1830 The Met

A row of structures and a massive weeping willow tree line the clay-orange riverbank opposite us in this horizontal landscape painting. The scene is painted loosely with long, visible brushstrokes.

Paul Cézanne Banks of the Seine at Médan, c. 1885/1890 National Gallery of Art

View of the Domaine Saint-Joseph, Paul Cézanne, late 1880s, oil on canvas

Paul Cézanne View of the Domaine Saint-Joseph, late 1880s The Met

On the Unadilla, New York, Eastman Johnson, 1884, oil on canvas

Eastman Johnson On the Unadilla, New York, 1884 The Met

Portrait of man, black coat, white collar, hand in book.

Ammi Phillips Cornelius Allerton, 1821–22 Art Institute of Chicago

Allegory of the Catholic Faith, Johannes Vermeer, ca. 1670–72, oil on canvas

Johannes Vermeer Allegory of the Catholic Faith, ca. 1670–72 The Met

Madame Auguste Cuoq (Mathilde Desportes, 1827–1910), Gustave Courbet, ca. 1852–57, oil on canvas

Gustave Courbet Madame Auguste Cuoq (Mathilde Desportes, 1827–1910), ca. 1852–57 The Met

Marguerite-Juliette Pierret, Eugène Delacroix, c. 1827, oil on fabric

Eugène Delacroix Marguerite-Juliette Pierret, c. 1827 Cleveland Museum of Art

This is a landscape painting depicting a body of water surrounded by greenery, with tall green and purple mountains in the background under a sky full of dark pink clouds and a strip of bright blue-green.

John La Farge The Entrance to the Tautira River, Tahiti. Fisherman Spearing a Fish, c. 1895 National Gallery of Art

Landscape on a River, Charles-François Daubigny, 1863, oil on wood

Charles-François Daubigny Landscape on a River, 1863 The Met

Shown from the knees up, a woman wearing a black dress is painted with areas of mottled color in this vertical painting. The woman’s body faces us, her shoulders sloping steeply down from her elongated neck.

Amedeo Modigliani Café Singer, 1917 National Gallery of Art

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