Paintings for Powder Blue Walls (page 38)

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Paintings built around the opposite color, which stand out against this wall. The truest opposites come first. Showing 1,777 to 1,824 of 1,950.

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

Francesco Guardi Fantastic Landscape, ca. 1765 The Met

We look across a profusion of vivid red, blush-pink, and white flowers lining a stony shoreline in this almost square landscape painting.

Childe Hassam Poppies, Isles of Shoals, 1891 National Gallery of Art

Shown from the chest up, a pale-skinned, clean-shaven man looks off to our left against a moss-green background in this vertical portrait painting.

Albrecht Dürer Portrait of a Clergyman (Johann Dorsch?), 1516 National Gallery of Art

View of Ornans, Gustave Courbet, probably mid-1850s, oil on canvas

Gustave Courbet View of Ornans, probably mid-1850s The Met

Basket of Flowers, Eugène Delacroix, 1848–49, oil on canvas

Eugène Delacroix Basket of Flowers, 1848–49 The Met

More than three dozen pears clustered densely on leafy branches against a vivid blue sky fill this long, horizontal painting. Most of the pears are golden yellow and touched with blush pink on one side.

Joseph Decker Ripening Pears, c. 1884/1885 National Gallery of Art

Landscape with a Sunlit Stream, Charles-François Daubigny, ca. 1877, oil on canvas

Charles-François Daubigny Landscape with a Sunlit Stream, ca. 1877 The Met

Madame Jean-Baptiste Nicolet (Anne Antoinette Desmoulins, 1743–1817), Jean-Baptiste Greuze, late 1780s, oil on wood

Jean-Baptiste Greuze Madame Jean-Baptiste Nicolet (Anne Antoinette Desmoulins, 1743–1817), late 1780s The Met

Porte de la Reine at Aigues-Mortes, Frédéric Bazille, 1867, oil on canvas

Frédéric Bazille Porte de la Reine at Aigues-Mortes, 1867 The Met

Figure in Hammock, Florida, John Singer Sargent, 1917, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on white wove paper

John Singer Sargent Figure in Hammock, Florida, 1917 The Met

The Van Moerkerken Family, Gerard ter Borch, ca. 1653–54, oil on wood

Gerard ter Borch The Van Moerkerken Family, ca. 1653–54 The Met

A woman bends double to tend a garden that stretches before us in front of two houses in this horizontal landscape painting.

Camille Pissarro The Artist's Garden at Eragny, 1898 National Gallery of Art

Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte", Georges Seurat, 1884, oil on wood

Georges Seurat Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte", 1884 The Met

The Vase of Tulips, Paul Cézanne, c. 1890, oil on canvas

Paul Cézanne The Vase of Tulips, c. 1890 Art Institute of Chicago

The Edge of the Woods at Monts-Girard, Fontainebleau Forest, Théodore Rousseau, 1852–54, oil on wood

Théodore Rousseau The Edge of the Woods at Monts-Girard, Fontainebleau Forest, 1852–54 The Met

In the distance, a fortress sits on a rocky plateau below a sky filled with lightly rolling white and gray clouds in this horizontal landscape painting.

Bernardo Bellotto The Fortress of Königstein, 1756-1758 National Gallery of Art

Entrance to a Village, Meindert Hobbema, ca. 1665, oil on wood

Meindert Hobbema Entrance to a Village, ca. 1665 The Met

Bashi-Bazouk, Jean-Léon Gérôme, ca. 1868–69, oil on canvas

Jean-Léon Gérôme Bashi-Bazouk, ca. 1868–69 The Met

Portrait of a Man, Diego Velázquez, ca. 1650, oil on canvas

Diego Velázquez Portrait of a Man, ca. 1650 The Met

Catherine Brooks Hall, William Sidney Mount, ca. 1830, oil on canvas

William Sidney Mount Catherine Brooks Hall, ca. 1830 The Met

Holding a bunch of peonies in one hand, a woman with brown skin leans forward, toward us from behind a large basket holding dozens of flowers in this horizontal painting.

Frédéric Bazille Young Woman with Peonies, 1870 National Gallery of Art

Young Herdsmen with Cows, Aelbert Cuyp, ca. 1655–60, oil on canvas

Aelbert Cuyp Young Herdsmen with Cows, ca. 1655–60 The Met

The Gulf Stream, Winslow Homer, 1899; reworked by 1906, oil on canvas

Winslow Homer The Gulf Stream, 1899; reworked by 1906 The Met

We look slightly down onto a baby tucked into an oval-shaped cradle with a woman sitting on the far side looking down at the child in this vertical painting. Both the woman and baby have light skin.

Claude Monet The Cradle - Camille with the Artist's Son Jean, 1867 National Gallery of Art

Four women and two children, all with pale skin, carry baskets as they walk along a beach under a brilliant blue sky in this horizontal painting. The scene is painted with visible dabs and blended strokes.

John Singer Sargent En route pour la pêche (Setting Out to Fish), 1878 National Gallery of Art

Painting of woman in a striped dress seated on the bank of a river, beneath a full, leafy tree, a boat at the shore and a village visible across the river.

Claude Monet On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt, 1868 Art Institute of Chicago

This painting shows a man in a yellow jacket standing on a small brown rowboat on a wide, pale green river. Behind him is a large mint-green sailboat, its tall mast bare, the sails folded on the deck.

Childe Hassam Oyster Sloop, Cos Cob, 1902 National Gallery of Art

Tahitian Landscape, Paul Gauguin, 1892, oil on canvas

Paul Gauguin Tahitian Landscape, 1892 The Met

The painting features a large gray watering can in the bottom right corner, set against a lush garden background. Bushes on the right side are speckled with dots of pink, yellow, blue, orange, and purple, suggesting flowers.

Georges Seurat The Watering Can - Garden at Le Raincy, c. 1883 National Gallery of Art

We look out onto a landscape with tawny-brown haystacks and trees among a patchwork of moss, lime, mint, and pine-green fields in this stylized, horizontal painting. The scene is painted with mostly flat areas of color.

Paul Gauguin Haystacks in Brittany, 1890 National Gallery of Art

We look slightly down onto a silvery-gray beach nestled in a hilly, curving coastline to our right in this horizontal landscape painting. A flat expanse of beach stretches in front of us to meet the water to our left.

Claude Monet Sainte-Adresse, 1867 National Gallery of Art

The painting features a sandy shore and a calm sea with sailing boats in the distance. At the bottom of the painting, people sit on the sand by the water.

Eugène Boudin Washerwoman near Trouville, c. 1872/1876 National Gallery of Art

Outskirts of Paris, Henri Rousseau, c. 1897–1905, oil on fabric

Henri Rousseau Outskirts of Paris, c. 1897–1905 Cleveland Museum of Art

Large painting, standing man blue turtleneck, sitting woman with white collar.

Amedeo Modigliani Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz, 1916 Art Institute of Chicago

The Banks of the Marne at Charenton, Armand Guillaumin, c. 1895, oil on fabric

Armand Guillaumin The Banks of the Marne at Charenton, c. 1895 Cleveland Museum of Art

Lormes: Goat-Girl Sitting Beside a Stream in a Forest, Camille Corot, 1842, oil on fabric

Camille Corot Lormes: Goat-Girl Sitting Beside a Stream in a Forest, 1842 Cleveland Museum of Art

From a little above a dirt road, we look past a grove of trees to a broad plain and a lake at the foot of towering, hazy mountains in this horizontal landscape painting.

Albert Bierstadt Lake Lucerne, 1858 National Gallery of Art

Landscape with Cattle at Limousin, Jules Dupré, 1837, oil on canvas

Jules Dupré Landscape with Cattle at Limousin, 1837 The Met

Christ Asleep during the Tempest, Eugène Delacroix, ca. 1853, oil on canvas

Eugène Delacroix Christ Asleep during the Tempest, ca. 1853 The Met

The Beach at Deauville, Eugène Boudin, 1864, oil on wood panel

Eugène Boudin The Beach at Deauville, 1864 Cleveland Museum of Art

River with a Distant Tower, Camille Corot, 1865, oil on canvas

Camille Corot River with a Distant Tower, 1865 The Met

We look slightly down onto a loosely painted scene with three ballerinas in rose-pink costumes and one man, wearing a black suit and top hat, against a backdrop made up of dabs and strokes of lime, mint, and pine green in this vertical…

Edgar Degas Dancers Backstage, 1876/1883 National Gallery of Art

The Banks of the Marne in Winter, Camille Pissarro, 1866, oil on canvas

Camille Pissarro The Banks of the Marne in Winter, 1866 Art Institute of Chicago

Boys in a Dory, Winslow Homer, 1873, watercolor washes and gouache over graphite underdrawing on medium rough textured white wove paper

Winslow Homer Boys in a Dory, 1873 The Met

The Loire, Alfred Sisley, 1896, oil on canvas

Alfred Sisley The Loire, 1896 Art Institute of Chicago

Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue, Piet Mondrian, 1927, oil on canvas

Piet Mondrian Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue, 1927 Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of a Bearded Man with a Ruff, Frans Hals, 1625, oil on canvas

Frans Hals Portrait of a Bearded Man with a Ruff, 1625 The Met

Arrangement in Black, No. 3: Sir Henry Irving as Philip II of Spain, James McNeill Whistler, 1876, reworked 1885, oil on canvas

James McNeill Whistler Arrangement in Black, No. 3: Sir Henry Irving as Philip II of Spain, 1876, reworked 1885 The Met

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