Paintings for Warm White Walls (page 11)

Soft and muted

Gentle, low-color paintings that keep a pale room calm. The warmest come first, to answer the cream in the wall. Showing 481 to 528 of 1,315.

A young woman with pale, peachy skin, wearing a long, silvery blue dress with a rose-pink train looks out at us in this vertical portrait painting.

John Singer Sargent Miss Mathilde Townsend, 1907 National Gallery of Art

We look up at the exterior of a church that soars the height of this vertical painting.

Claude Monet Rouen Cathedral, West Façade, Sunlight, 1894 National Gallery of Art

Dancers Practicing at the Barre, Edgar Degas, 1877, mixed media on canvas

Edgar Degas Dancers Practicing at the Barre, 1877 The Met

This painting shows a person bent over, working the land outdoors. The person is in the center of the painting, surrounded by green grass and dark trees. The sky is not visible. In the bottom left corner, there is a section of brown earth.

Georges Seurat Man with a Hoe, c. 1882 National Gallery of Art

Autumn: The Woodland Pond, Narcisse Virgilio Díaz de la Peña, 1867, oil on canvas

Narcisse Virgilio Díaz de la Peña Autumn: The Woodland Pond, 1867 The Met

We look across a dark, aquamarine-blue body of water at a bulky, stony outcropping to our right in this horizontal landscape painting.

John Frederick Kensett Beacon Rock, Newport Harbor, 1857 National Gallery of Art

A Boy with a Cat—Morning, Thomas Gainsborough, 1787, oil on canvas

Thomas Gainsborough A Boy with a Cat—Morning, 1787 The Met

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

Ecuadorian landscape with people, palm trees, waterfall, and volcano in background.

Frederic Edwin Church View of Cotopaxi, 1857 Art Institute of Chicago

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

Cliffs on the Sea Coast: Small Beach, Sunrise (Falaise au bord de la mer, vu Petite Plage, soleil levant), Gustave Courbet, 1865, oil on canvas

Gustave Courbet Cliffs on the Sea Coast: Small Beach, Sunrise (Falaise au bord de la mer, vu Petite Plage, soleil levant), 1865 Art Institute of Chicago

An Alpine Scene, Gustave Courbet, 1874, oil on canvas

Gustave Courbet An Alpine Scene, 1874 Art Institute of Chicago

Three women stand on or next to a ladder picking olives in an orchard in this horizontal landscape painting. The women, trees, ground, and sky are all painted with long, parallel brushstrokes that curve and swirl over the canvas.

Vincent van Gogh The Olive Orchard, 1889 National Gallery of Art

Painted entirely with small dots of pure color mostly in slate and azure blue, olive green, and cream white, this scene shows a sandy beach stretching to a lighthouse at the center and a four-story building to our right in this horizontal…

Georges Seurat The Lighthouse at Honfleur, 1886 National Gallery of Art

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

The Hermit (Il solitario), John Singer Sargent, 1908, oil on canvas

John Singer Sargent The Hermit (Il solitario), 1908 The Met

Spanish Landscape, John Singer Sargent, 1879–80, oil on wood

John Singer Sargent Spanish Landscape, 1879–80 The Met

This horizontal landscape is painted with broad, visible strokes in shades of laurel, fern, and pine green, dark yellow, and ash brown.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Landscape between Storms, 1874/1875 National Gallery of Art

Mariana of Austria (1634–1696), Queen of Spain, Diego Velázquez, 1640, oil on canvas

Diego Velázquez Mariana of Austria (1634–1696), Queen of Spain, 1640 The Met

Honfleur, Johan Barthold Jongkind, 1865, oil on canvas

Johan Barthold Jongkind Honfleur, 1865 The Met

The Forest Stream, Jacob van Ruisdael, ca. 1660, oil on canvas

Jacob van Ruisdael The Forest Stream, ca. 1660 The Met

Moonlight, Strandgade 30, Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1900–1906, oil on canvas

Vilhelm Hammershøi Moonlight, Strandgade 30, 1900–1906 The Met

The image shows a portrait of a man with a soft, round face, a slightly double chin, small eyes, and a neutral expression. He has gray, voluminous hair styled in the fashion of the 18th century.

Joseph Wright of Derby Portrait of a Gentleman, c. 1760 National Gallery of Art

Pair of Paintings: The Colonnade of Saint Peter's, Rome, during the Conclave and The Grotto of Posillipo, Hubert Robert, c.1769, oil on canvas

Hubert Robert Pair of Paintings: The Colonnade of Saint Peter's, Rome, during the Conclave and The Grotto of Posillipo, c.1769 Cleveland Museum of Art