Paintings for Powder Blue Walls (page 34)

Contrasts with your wall

Paintings built around the opposite color, which stand out against this wall. The truest opposites come first. Showing 1,585 to 1,632 of 1,950.

Newport Rocks, John Frederick Kensett, 1872, oil on canvas

John Frederick Kensett Newport Rocks, 1872 The Met

Shown from the shins up, two elegantly dressed women and two young boys, all with light skin, sit together on a bench in front of a stone balustrade with a forest landscape beyond in this horizontal portrait painting.

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun The Marquise de Pezay, and the Marquise de Rougé with Her Sons Alexis and Adrien, 1787 National Gallery of Art

This painting shows a man from the waist up, his body turned slightly to the right. He stands upright, looking at the viewer, holding a golf club or cane horizontally with both hands.

George Bellows Chester Dale, 1922 National Gallery of Art

River and Rocks, Gustave Courbet, 1873–77, oil on canvas

Gustave Courbet River and Rocks, 1873–77 The Met

John Julius Angerstein (1736–1823), Thomas Lawrence, 1810, oil on canvas

Thomas Lawrence John Julius Angerstein (1736–1823), 1810 The Met

Study for Eagle Head, Manchester, Massachusetts, Winslow Homer, 1869 (?), oil on wood

Winslow Homer Study for Eagle Head, Manchester, Massachusetts, 1869 (?) The Met

From a distance, we look slightly down into a lush park filled pairs and groups of elegantly dressed, light-skinned adults and children frolicking and socializing in this vertical painting.

Jean-Honoré Fragonard Blindman's Buff, c. 1775/1780 National Gallery of Art

Grapes, Lemons, Pears, and Apples, Vincent van Gogh, 1887, oil on canvas

Vincent van Gogh Grapes, Lemons, Pears, and Apples, 1887 Art Institute of Chicago

The Holy Family with Mary Magdalen, El Greco, c. 1590–95, oil on canvas

El Greco The Holy Family with Mary Magdalen, c. 1590–95 Cleveland Museum of Art

Water laps at a curving shoreline in front of a steep sandy dune carpeted in grass, shrubs, and trees in this horizontal landscape painting. The dune takes up the lower right quadrant of the composition.

Jacob van Ruisdael Dunes by the Sea, 1648 National Gallery of Art

View of the Seine, Georges Seurat, 1882–83, oil on wood

Georges Seurat View of the Seine, 1882–83 The Met

Shown from the lap up, a woman with peach-colored skin sits leaning sideways against the back of a wooden chair with her head tilted to our left on her long neck in this vertical, stylized portrait.

Amedeo Modigliani Woman with Red Hair, 1917 National Gallery of Art

Six men on horseback and wearing jockeys’ uniforms line up on a grassy field in front of us in this loosely painted horizontal scene. The jockeys and horses’ features are especially freely painted so much of the detail is indistinct.

Edgar Degas The Riders, c. 1885 National Gallery of Art

William Fraser of Reelig (1784–1835), Henry Raeburn, 1801, oil on canvas

Henry Raeburn William Fraser of Reelig (1784–1835), 1801 The Met

The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak, Albert Bierstadt, 1863, oil on canvas

Albert Bierstadt The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak, 1863 The Met

We look slightly down onto a group of people gathered along the bank of a river that winds around a copse of tall trees to our left, past a hill to our right, and into the deep distance in this horizontal landscape painting.

Claude Lorrain Landscape with Merchants, c. 1629 National Gallery of Art

Madame Grand (Noël Catherine Vorlée, 1761–1835), Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1783, oil on canvas

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun Madame Grand (Noël Catherine Vorlée, 1761–1835), 1783 The Met

The face of a young woman with pale, peachy skin materializes from a deeply shadowed background in this vertical portrait painting. Shown from the waist up, her body is angled to our right, and her face turns to look at us.

Rembrandt van Rijn Saskia van Uylenburgh, the Wife of the Artist, probably begun 1634/1635 and completed 1638/1640 National Gallery of Art

Dark moody painting of crumbling castle tower and walls amidst river and forest.

Jacob van Ruisdael Landscape with the Ruins of the Castle of Egmond, 1650–55 Art Institute of Chicago

The Visit, Pieter de Hooch, ca. 1657, oil on wood

Pieter de Hooch The Visit, ca. 1657 The Met

The Denial of Saint Peter, Caravaggio, 1610, oil on canvas

Caravaggio The Denial of Saint Peter, 1610 The Met

William Robertson (1753–1835), Lord Robertson, Henry Raeburn, 1805, oil on canvas

Henry Raeburn William Robertson (1753–1835), Lord Robertson, 1805 The Met

The Wood Chopper, George Inness, 1849, oil on canvas

George Inness The Wood Chopper, 1849 Cleveland Museum of Art

Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers), Thomas Gainsborough, 1787, oil on canvas

Thomas Gainsborough Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers), 1787 The Met

Anna Dummer Powell, John Singleton Copley, 1764, oil on canvas

John Singleton Copley Anna Dummer Powell, 1764 Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of Jeanne Wenz, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1886, oil on canvas

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Portrait of Jeanne Wenz, 1886 Art Institute of Chicago

A dozen men, women, and children walk, stand, or sit on a waterside wharf that spans this horizontal painting. A jetty stretches into the distance at a right angle, starting to the left of center. Dozens more people pack the jetty.

Eugène Boudin Jetty and Wharf at Trouville, 1863 National Gallery of Art

Portrait of a Man, Gustave Courbet, probably ca. 1862, oil on canvas

Gustave Courbet Portrait of a Man, probably ca. 1862 The Met

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Hussars, 1878 National Gallery of Art

Mrs. John Crosby Brown (Mary Elizabeth Adams, 1842–1918), Anders Zorn, ca. 1900, oil on canvas

Anders Zorn Mrs. John Crosby Brown (Mary Elizabeth Adams, 1842–1918), ca. 1900 The Met

Edmond Cavé (1794–1852), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1844, oil on canvas

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Edmond Cavé (1794–1852), 1844 The Met

Mrs. Winfield Scott, Asher Brown Durand, 1831, oil on canvas

Asher Brown Durand Mrs. Winfield Scott, 1831 The Met

Very dark painting of a light-skinned, mostly clean-shaven young man in dark suit and dark full-length coat, holding a rolled-up paper and gloves.

James McNeill Whistler Arrangement in Flesh Color and Brown: Portrait of Arthur Jerome Eddy, 1894 Art Institute of Chicago

This painting is a portrait of a seated woman shown from the knees upwards. She is seated in a woven yellow armchair, with her right arm resting on one arm of the chair, while her left hand rests on her lap.

George Bellows Florence Sittenham Davey (Mrs. Randall Davey), 1914 National Gallery of Art

From behind a low stone wall, on which a young woman with pale skin sits, we look across a wide, shimmering blue waterway toward a town along the opposite shore, under a pale blue sky with wispy white clouds in this horizontal landscape…

Berthe Morisot The Harbor at Lorient, 1869 National Gallery of Art

The Red Bridge, Julian Alden Weir, 1895, oil on canvas

Julian Alden Weir The Red Bridge, 1895 The Met

Portrait of a Man, Anthony van Dyck, ca. 1618, oil on wood

Anthony van Dyck Portrait of a Man, ca. 1618 The Met

Painted dark colored portrait of man, hands in prayer.

Rogier van der Weyden Portrait of Jean Gros (recto); Coat of Arms of Jean Gros (verso), 1460–64 Art Institute of Chicago

Painted in muted lime green, plum purple, buttercup yellow, slate and royal blue, the head and shoulders of a man with peach-colored skin sitting in front of a window looks at us in this stylized, vertical portrait.

Paul Gauguin Self-Portrait Dedicated to Carrière, 1888 or 1889 National Gallery of Art

Painted portrait dominated by loose, large brushstrokes of a woman, seen from the back, wearing a gauzy white off-the-shoulder dress and black choker, blond hair swept up, examining herself in a mirror at left.

Berthe Morisot Woman at Her Toilette, 1875–80 Art Institute of Chicago

The Penitence of Saint Jerome, Joachim Patinir, ca. 1515, oil on wood

Joachim Patinir The Penitence of Saint Jerome, ca. 1515 The Met

A young woman sitting with a nude infant lying in her lap is flanked on either side by an older woman to our left and an elderly man with a nude young boy to our right in this vertical painting. They all have pale skin tinged with blue.

El Greco The Holy Family with Saint Anne and the Infant John the Baptist, c. 1595/1600 National Gallery of Art

Portrait of a Woman, Corneille de Lyon, c. 1540, oil on wood

Corneille de Lyon Portrait of a Woman, c. 1540 Cleveland Museum of Art

André Bénac, Édouard Vuillard, 1936, oil on fabric

Édouard Vuillard André Bénac, 1936 Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of a Young Man, Agnolo Bronzino, 1530s, oil on wood

Agnolo Bronzino Portrait of a Young Man, 1530s The Met

Shown from the waist up, a young, pale-skinned woman with her gray hair piled high atop her head is lit starkly against a dark background in this vertical portrait painting. The woman’s shoulders are angled to our left.

Thomas Gainsborough Mrs. Paul Cobb Methuen, c. 1776/1777 National Gallery of Art

Portrait of white man dressed in all black with medallion and sword.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Amédée-David, the Comte de Pastoret, 1823–26 Art Institute of Chicago

Hunting near Hartenfels Castle, Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1540, oil, originally on wood, transferred to masonite

Lucas Cranach the Elder Hunting near Hartenfels Castle, 1540 Cleveland Museum of Art

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