Paintings for Powder Blue Walls (page 30)

Contrasts with your wall

Paintings built around the opposite color, which stand out against this wall. The truest opposites come first. Showing 1,393 to 1,440 of 1,950.

Against a hilly landscape and on a patch of dirt, five people wearing tattered clothing gather around a bearded man who holds a violin in his lap in this horizontal painting. Most of them have pale skin.

Édouard Manet The Old Musician, 1862 National Gallery of Art

This painting depicts the upper half of a person's body. Their body is facing us, but their head is turned to the right in a three-quarters view, looking away from us.

Gustave Courbet Portrait of a Young Girl, 1857 National Gallery of Art

A Maid Asleep, Johannes Vermeer, ca. 1656–57, oil on canvas

Johannes Vermeer A Maid Asleep, ca. 1656–57 The Met

Rest on the Flight into Egypt, Claude Lorrain, early 1640s, oil on canvas

Claude Lorrain Rest on the Flight into Egypt, early 1640s Cleveland Museum of Art

From a point of view over the water, we look across a bustling canal at a bridge, which is flanked by rows of buildings to each side in this horizontal painting.

Francesco Guardi View on the Cannaregio Canal, Venice, c. 1775-1780 National Gallery of Art

Steamboats in the Port of Rouen, Camille Pissarro, 1896, oil on canvas

Camille Pissarro Steamboats in the Port of Rouen, 1896 The Met

From a rocky shoreline, we look on several light-skinned people working by the sea with a boat and a net in this freely painted, almost square seascape.

Thomas Gainsborough Seashore with Fishermen, c. 1781/1782 National Gallery of Art

Robert Henri Young Woman in White, 1904 National Gallery of Art

Antoine Dominique Sauveur Aubert (born 1817), the Artist's Uncle, as a Monk, Paul Cézanne, 1866, oil on canvas

Paul Cézanne Antoine Dominique Sauveur Aubert (born 1817), the Artist's Uncle, as a Monk, 1866 The Met

View from the Quai d'Orsay, Johan Barthold Jongkind, 1854, oil on canvas, mounted on wood

Johan Barthold Jongkind View from the Quai d'Orsay, 1854 The Met

We look across a river and slightly up at a pair of tall, leafy trees framed by steely-gray clouds against a a vivid blue sky in this nearly square landscape painting.

Jacob van Ruisdael Landscape, c. 1670 National Gallery of Art

Shown from about the knees up, a young woman sits in a chair angled to our right but she turns her face to look at us in this loosely painted, vertical portrait.

Vincent van Gogh La Mousmé, 1888 National Gallery of Art

Portrait of a Woman, Frans Hals, ca. 1650, reworked probably 18th century, oil on canvas

Frans Hals Portrait of a Woman, ca. 1650, reworked probably 18th century The Met

Madonna and Child, Filippino Lippi, ca. 1483–84, tempera, oil, and gold on wood

Filippino Lippi Madonna and Child, ca. 1483–84 The Met

A pair of arched cave openings yawn in a steep, rocky cliff face that fills this horizontal painting.

Gustave Courbet La Grotte de la Loue, 1864 National Gallery of Art

Shown from the waist up, a young woman holds a baby up against her chest in this vertical painting. They both face us and have pale skin.

Giovanni Bellini Madonna and Child, c. 1480/1485 National Gallery of Art

The painting displays a dark green field stretching into the distance. A line of trees and small, indistinct structures can be seen near the center of the painting.

George Inness Harvest Moon, 1891 National Gallery of Art

Portrait of man wearing voluminous black cloak, feathered hat, and gold medallion.

Rembrandt van Rijn Old Man with a Gold Chain, 1631 Art Institute of Chicago

Spring Flowers, Claude Monet, 1864, oil on canvas

Claude Monet Spring Flowers, 1864 Cleveland Museum of Art

Scene on the Mersey, James McNeill Whistler, 1869, watercolor and gouache on white wove paper

James McNeill Whistler Scene on the Mersey, 1869 The Met

A bearded man with light skin, wearing a black costume and holding a plumed hat, stands in front of mottled brown background in this vertical portrait painting.

Édouard Manet The Tragic Actor (Rouvière as Hamlet), 1866 National Gallery of Art

Nymphs and a Satyr (Amor Vincit Omnia), Nicolas Poussin, c. 1625–27, oil on canvas

Nicolas Poussin Nymphs and a Satyr (Amor Vincit Omnia), c. 1625–27 Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of Mary Wise, Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1774, oil on canvas

Thomas Gainsborough Portrait of Mary Wise, c. 1774 Cleveland Museum of Art

The Large Plane Trees (Road Menders at Saint-Rémy), Vincent van Gogh, 1889, oil on fabric

Vincent van Gogh The Large Plane Trees (Road Menders at Saint-Rémy), 1889 Cleveland Museum of Art

Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby, Thomas Lawrence, 1790, oil on canvas

Thomas Lawrence Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby, 1790 The Met

This painting displays a young girl sitting, her head and body slightly turned to the left. She has fair skin and light reddish-brown hair tied back with a blue ribbon, a few curls framing her face.

Berthe Morisot Young Girl with an Apron, 1891 National Gallery of Art

This painting depicts a vast countryside from an elevated point of view. At the bottom of the painting is a wide brown and green field that appears to be growing wheat or a similar crop.

George Inness Harvest Scene in the Delaware Valley, 1867 National Gallery of Art

Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678), Peter Paul Rubens, ca. 1635, oil on wood

Peter Paul Rubens Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678), ca. 1635 The Met

Portrait of a Family Playing Music, Pieter de Hooch, 1663, oil on canvas

Pieter de Hooch Portrait of a Family Playing Music, 1663 Cleveland Museum of Art

Shown from the waist up, a woman with light, peachy-yellow skin sits with her body facing us as she looks over her shoulder to our right in this loosely painted, vertical portrait.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Carmen Gaudin, 1885 National Gallery of Art

Madame Roulin Rocking the Cradle (La berceuse), Vincent van Gogh, 1889, oil on canvas

Vincent van Gogh Madame Roulin Rocking the Cradle (La berceuse), 1889 Art Institute of Chicago

The Lovesick Maiden, Jan Steen, ca. 1660, oil on canvas

Jan Steen The Lovesick Maiden, ca. 1660 The Met

Portrait of a woman in white with a bonnet perched on an architectural feature painting something to her right, a spouting water fountain, greenery, and a an ornate, low white fence behind her.

John Singer Sargent The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy, 1907 Art Institute of Chicago

A garden with two fountains stretches back to a manor house in the distance in this horizontal landscape painting. The horizon comes about a third of the way up the composition, and gray clouds tower in the vivid blue sky above.

Jacob van Ruisdael Country House in a Park, c. 1675 National Gallery of Art

Virgin and Child with Four Angels, Gerard David, ca. 1510–15, oil on wood

Gerard David Virgin and Child with Four Angels, ca. 1510–15 The Met

Sunrise on the Matterhorn, Albert Bierstadt, after 1875, oil on canvas

Albert Bierstadt Sunrise on the Matterhorn, after 1875 The Met

View of Genoa, Camille Corot, 1834, oil on paper, mounted on canvas

Camille Corot View of Genoa, 1834 Art Institute of Chicago

This painting presents a series of curved and bending lines intersecting with each other in an abstract pattern. The lines create a design resembling tree branches and leafy canopies.

Franz Marc Weasels at Play, 1911 National Gallery of Art

Friedrich III (1463–1525), the Wise, Elector of Saxony, Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1533, oil on beech, with letterpress-printed paper labels

Lucas Cranach the Elder Friedrich III (1463–1525), the Wise, Elector of Saxony, 1533 The Met

The Call, Paul Gauguin, 1902, oil on canvas

Paul Gauguin The Call, 1902 Cleveland Museum of Art

A young woman with light skin stands in a garden, wearing a voluminous, full-length, silvery, shimmering gown in this vertical portrait painting. Her body faces us, as she looks into the distance to our left.

François Boucher Madame Bergeret, possibly 1766 National Gallery of Art

Three light-skinned girls hold hands to create a loose ring with their arms extended, in a grassy field in this horizontal painting. All three girls wear white headdresses, ankle-length, long-sleeved dresses, and clogs.

Paul Gauguin Breton Girls Dancing, Pont-Aven, 1888 National Gallery of Art

View on the Catskill—Early Autumn, Thomas Cole, 1836–37, oil on canvas

Thomas Cole View on the Catskill—Early Autumn, 1836–37 The Met

This painting shows a pastoral setting with a large white-and-gray house on a hill to the left. Distant people stand in front of the house, along with a horse-drawn wagon.

Edward Hicks The Grave of William Penn, c. 1847/1848 National Gallery of Art

A densely packed crowd of men and women, all of them with pale skin and most of them wearing black, stand in a theater lobby beneath a mezzanine level that runs close to the top edge of the composition in this horizontal painting.

Édouard Manet Masked Ball at the Opera, 1873 National Gallery of Art

We look slightly down onto a bare, gnarled tree near a gray, dirt path, which leads back to a hamlet in this horizontal landscape painting. The scene is loosely painted with visible brushstrokes, so many details are indistinct.

Camille Pissarro The Fence, 1872 National Gallery of Art

Four boats with low masts sit on a sandy beach next to rocky cliffs under a cloud-filled sky in this horizontal landscape painting. Three of the boats are clustered together near the center of the composition.

Gustave Courbet Boats on a Beach, Etretat, c. 1872/1875 National Gallery of Art

Frieze of Dancers, Edgar Degas, c. 1895, oil on fabric

Edgar Degas Frieze of Dancers, c. 1895 Cleveland Museum of Art

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