Paintings for Powder Blue Walls (page 19)

Contrasts with your wall

Paintings built around the opposite color, which stand out against this wall. The truest opposites come first. Showing 865 to 912 of 1,950.

Don Andrés de Andrade y la Cal, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, ca. 1665–72, oil on canvas

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo Don Andrés de Andrade y la Cal, ca. 1665–72 The Met

Music and Dance, François Boucher, 1740s, oil on canvas

François Boucher Music and Dance, 1740s Cleveland Museum of Art

Cool light filters through a thick, verdant forest in this vertical landscape painting. Most of the trees have high canopies with celery, matcha, and olive-green leaves.

Asher Brown Durand Forest in the Morning Light, c. 1855 National Gallery of Art

A rocky shoreline juts into a vivid, aquamarine-blue body of water in this loosely painted, nearly square landscape.

Childe Hassam A North East Headland, 1901 National Gallery of Art

Shown from the chest up with his body and head facing us, a pale-skinned young man cuts his light-brown eyes sharply to our right in this vertical portrait painting.

Anthony van Dyck Head of a Young Man, c. 1617/1618 National Gallery of Art

A tall woman with pale white skin and a shorter man with brown skin stand on a terrace in this vertical, full-length portrait.

Anthony van Dyck Marchesa Elena Grimaldi Cattaneo, 1623 National Gallery of Art

Two green pears lit from the upper right sit on a pale blue tabletop or ledge against a dark background in this horizontal still life painting. The left pear sits upright against the other.

Édouard Manet Pears, 1880 National Gallery of Art

Soap Bubbles, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, ca. 1733–34, oil on canvas

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin Soap Bubbles, ca. 1733–34 The Met

Charles Rousseau Burney (1747–1819), Thomas Gainsborough, ca. 1780, oil on canvas

Thomas Gainsborough Charles Rousseau Burney (1747–1819), ca. 1780 The Met

James Johnston of Straiton (died 1841), Henry Raeburn, 1800, oil on canvas

Henry Raeburn James Johnston of Straiton (died 1841), 1800 The Met

This painting shows a grand building with elaborate arches, columns, statues, and staircases, in front of which is a courtyard filled with people facing away from us.

Francesco Guardi Temporary Tribune in the Campo San Zanipolo, Venice, 1782 or after National Gallery of Art

Street, Tangier, John Singer Sargent, 1895, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on off-white wove paper

John Singer Sargent Street, Tangier, 1895 The Met

Boboli Garden, Florence, John Singer Sargent, ca. 1906–7, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on white wove paper, mounted on board

John Singer Sargent Boboli Garden, Florence, ca. 1906–7 The Met

This painting shows a seated woman, her head turned slightly to the right. She has fair skin with rosy cheeks, pale eyebrows, a long nose, and thin pink lips in a neutral expression.

Benjamin West Maria Hamilton Beckford (Mrs. William Beckford), 1799 National Gallery of Art

A shaft of warm light from our left pierces a dark wood filled with tall trees in this horizontal landscape painting. The light falls on a stout white trunk and a portion of the moss-green forest floor near the center of the composition.

George Inness Sunset in the Woods, 1891 National Gallery of Art

Alexandre Charles Emmanuel de Crussol-Florensac (1743–1815), Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1787, oil on wood

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun Alexandre Charles Emmanuel de Crussol-Florensac (1743–1815), 1787 The Met

Lady Maria Conyngham (died 1843), Thomas Lawrence, ca. 1824–25, oil on canvas

Thomas Lawrence Lady Maria Conyngham (died 1843), ca. 1824–25 The Met

Chrysanthemum, Piet Mondrian, 1906–42, oil on canvas

Piet Mondrian Chrysanthemum, 1906–42 Cleveland Museum of Art

Two dark-skinned women stand facing each other on a dirt path that runs beside a body of water in this horizontal painting. One woman faces us and balances a flat tray loaded with white cloths on her head.

Camille Pissarro Two Women Chatting by the Sea, St. Thomas, 1856 National Gallery of Art

Shown from the chest up, a cleanshaven man with peachy skin sits angled to our right in this vertical portrait painting. He has chin-length, curly, auburn-red hair. He gazes off to our right with hazel eyes under thick brows.

Hans Holbein the Younger Portrait of a Young Man, c. 1520/1530 National Gallery of Art

Roiling, churning waves breaking against a patch of a sandy beach fill most of this wide, horizontal landscape painting. The water deepens from aquamarine blue to teal, slate, and midnight blue amid clouds of ivory-white crests and spray.

Thomas Moran The Much Resounding Sea, 1884 National Gallery of Art

Shown from the knees up, a young man with pale, peachy skin, wearing a black uniform and cap, leans against the back of a chair in this vertical portrait painting. He looks at us with pale blue eyes under sloping brows.

Edgar Degas Achille De Gas in the Uniform of a Cadet, 1856/1857 National Gallery of Art

A woman with pale skin and dark brown hair is swathed in silky fabric as she reclines along a gray couch in this horizontal painting. Her head rests along the backrest of the sofa to our left, so her body extends to our right.

John Singer Sargent Nonchaloir (Repose), 1911 National Gallery of Art

This is a painting of a red horse standing on a patch of tan ground, tethered by a rope to a tall brown post. The horse's reddish-brown coat is rich and glossy, with white highlights. It faces the left, with its ears pricked up.

Eugène Delacroix A Horse Hitched to a Post, c. 1820 National Gallery of Art

The Adoration of the Shepherds, El Greco, ca. 1612–14, oil on canvas

El Greco The Adoration of the Shepherds, ca. 1612–14 The Met

The Banks of the Oise, Charles-François Daubigny, 1863, oil on wood

Charles-François Daubigny The Banks of the Oise, 1863 The Met

Two Children Teasing a Cat, Annibale Carracci, 1588, oil on canvas

Annibale Carracci Two Children Teasing a Cat, 1588 The Met

Hudson River Scene, John Frederick Kensett, 1857, oil on canvas

John Frederick Kensett Hudson River Scene, 1857 The Met

The Drummond Children, Henry Raeburn, ca. 1808–9, oil on canvas

Henry Raeburn The Drummond Children, ca. 1808–9 The Met

Honfleur, Johan Barthold Jongkind, 1865, oil on canvas

Johan Barthold Jongkind Honfleur, 1865 The Met

Shown from the hips up, a pale-skinned woman holds an open, gold-colored fan in her lap in this vertical, loosely painted portrait.

Mary Cassatt Woman with a Fan, c. 1878/1879 National Gallery of Art

Reverie, Camille Corot, 1857 or later, oil on wood

Camille Corot Reverie, 1857 or later The Met

William Forsyth (1749–1814), Henry Raeburn, ca. 1800, oil on canvas

Henry Raeburn William Forsyth (1749–1814), ca. 1800 The Met

Portrait of a Child, Camille Corot, ca. 1835, oil on wood

Camille Corot Portrait of a Child, ca. 1835 The Met

Cupids in Conspiracy, François Boucher, 1740s, oil on canvas

François Boucher Cupids in Conspiracy, 1740s Cleveland Museum of Art

A bearded man with wrinkled, peachy skin and reddened cheeks sits and smokes a pipe on a wooden box in a landscape in this vertical painting. The man’s body faces us, and he peers at us with dark eyes under heavy, bushy white brows.

George Caleb Bingham Mississippi Boatman, 1850 National Gallery of Art

Dance in a Subterranean Roundhouse at Clear Lake, California, Jules Tavernier, 1878, oil on canvas

Jules Tavernier Dance in a Subterranean Roundhouse at Clear Lake, California, 1878 The Met

The Laundress, Honoré Daumier, 186[3?], oil on oak

Honoré Daumier The Laundress, 186[3?] The Met

Young Woman Knitting, Berthe Morisot, ca. 1883, oil on canvas

Berthe Morisot Young Woman Knitting, ca. 1883 The Met

A woman wearing a voluminous black dress with a wide, ruffled collar sits holding the hand of a young boy, who stands next to her, in this vertical portrait painting.

Anthony van Dyck A Genoese Noblewoman and Her Son, c. 1626 National Gallery of Art

Lady Smith (Charlotte Delaval) and Her Children (George Henry, Louisa, and Charlotte), Joshua Reynolds, 1787, oil on canvas

Joshua Reynolds Lady Smith (Charlotte Delaval) and Her Children (George Henry, Louisa, and Charlotte), 1787 The Met

A Woman Reading, Camille Corot, 1869 and 1870, oil on canvas

Camille Corot A Woman Reading, 1869 and 1870 The Met

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Rue des Moulins, 1894, 1894 National Gallery of Art

Lucia, Frederic Leighton, possibly late 1870s, oil on canvas

Frederic Leighton Lucia, possibly late 1870s The Met

The Jabach Family, Charles Le Brun, ca. 1660, oil on canvas

Charles Le Brun The Jabach Family, ca. 1660 The Met

The painting depicts a rural scene with a wide, cloudy blue sky over a riverbank. On the right there are tall, dark green trees that stretch up to the top of the painting.

Camille Corot River View, 1868/1872 National Gallery of Art

Two women with pale skin look out at us from the other side of a rectangular window opening with a shadowy interior behind them in this vertical painting.

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo Two Women at a Window, c. 1655/1660 National Gallery of Art

We look down onto a pile with a newspaper, theater program, pipe, a black and white checkerboard, and other objects painted as abstracted, geometric forms on a tabletop in this nearly square still life painting.

Juan Gris Fantômas, 1915 National Gallery of Art

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