Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, page 15

Shown from the chest up, a young woman faces us holding a nude baby in her arms in this vertical painting. They both have pale, peachy skin with pink cheeks.

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Madonna of the Goldfinch, c. 1767/1770 National Gallery of Art

Shown from about the knees up, a woman, baby, and two angels crowd together in a narrow interior space pierced by three window openings.

Sandro Botticelli Madonna and Child with Angels, 1465/1470 National Gallery of Art

James McNeill Whistler Mother of Pearl and Silver: The Andalusian, 1888(?)-1900 National Gallery of Art

A nude man holding a book in one hand and a rock down by his other side kneels at the opening of a rocky cave in this vertical painting. The man’s body and the shadowy cave opening nearly fill the composition.

El Greco Saint Jerome, c. 1610/1614 National Gallery of Art

Light pours over a woman floating in front of a bank of clouds, surrounded by ten mostly nude, toddler-like winged putti in this vertical painting. The woman, Mary, and the putti all have pale, peachy skin.

Anthony van Dyck The Virgin as Intercessor, 1628/1629 National Gallery of Art

Shown from the knees up, a pale-skinned man wears a tall, black hat, wide white ruffs at the neck and cuffs, and a voluminous black garment in this vertical portrait painting.

Anthony van Dyck Giovanni Vincenzo Imperiale, 1626 National Gallery of Art

Anthony van Dyck The Prefect Raffaele Raggi, c. 1625 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

A young boy with pale skin and short brown hair, wearing a black and gold jerkin and breeches, white lace collar, and buttercup-yellow stockings, stands facing us with a dog at his heels in this vertical portrait painting.

Anthony van Dyck Filippo Cattaneo, 1623 National Gallery of Art

A young girl with light skin, round, rosy cheeks, and blond hair holds an apple and wears a full, ankle-length, silvery white dress with puffy sleeves in this vertical portrait painting.

Anthony van Dyck Maddalena Cattaneo, 1623 National Gallery of Art

A woman with a pale, peachy skin stands wearing a voluminous rose-pink, silk dress and holding a wreath of pink and white roses and greenery in this vertical portrait painting.

Anthony van Dyck Catherine Howard, Lady d'Aubigny, c. 1638 National Gallery of Art

Johannes Vermeer Woman Holding a Balance, c. 1664 National Gallery of Art

Shown from the waist up, a young woman sits on the other side of the edge of a table, leaning toward us on one elbow in this vertical painting. She looks at us with dark brown eyes under faint, arched brows.

Johannes Vermeer Girl with a Flute, c. 1669/1675 National Gallery of Art

This painting shows a man depicted from two angles; on the left, he faces us, while on the right, his back is to us. In both views he wears the same clothes and is in the same position.

Eugène Delacroix Two Studies of a Standing Indian from Calcutta, c. 1823/1824 National Gallery of Art

The painting contains two full-body depictions of a man with dark skin in different postures and clothing, placed next to each other against a dark background. On the left, the man stands upright, holding a cane.

Eugène Delacroix Two Studies of an Indian from Calcutta, Seated and Standing, c. 1823/1824 National Gallery of Art

Light pours over a woman and a dozen children of different ages standing in small groups near a boxy, red schoolhouse in this horizontal painting.

Winslow Homer School Time, c. 1874 National Gallery of Art

A young boy with pale skin, wearing a burgundy-red suit and floppy hat, stands facing and looking at us with a gray terrier dog at his side in this vertical portrait painting.

Mary Cassatt Eddy Cassatt (Edward Buchanan Cassatt), 1875 National Gallery of Art

This painting is a portrait of a man standing, seen from the knees up, his torso and head slightly turned to the left.

Thomas Gainsborough Francis Basset, Lord de Dunstanville, c. 1786 National Gallery of Art

Shown from the waist up, a bearded man with pale, peachy skin, wearing a black wide-brimmed hat and jacket, and a broad, layered, white collar, holds up a piece of rolled up paper in this vertical portrait painting.

Rembrandt van Rijn Man with a Sheet of Music, 1633 National Gallery of Art

A crouching tiger to our left bares its fangs at a hissing snake wound around a tree to our right in this nearly square painting.

Eugène Delacroix Tiger and Snake, 1862 National Gallery of Art

A young, pale-skinned woman with reddish-blond hair sits with a nearly nude, chubby toddler standing in her lap in this vertical painting. She looks down at him, her body and face angled to our left.

Sandro Botticelli Madonna and Child, c. 1470 National Gallery of Art

About three dozen people gather in a grassy field to either side of a crumbling structure to kneel and pray before a woman and baby in the center of this horizontal painting.

Sandro Botticelli The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1478/1482 National Gallery of Art

This is a painting of a cherub with small wings hovering in the sky amidst swirling clouds. The sky is a soft blue with streaks of darker blue tones and a section of gray on the right.

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Study for a Ceiling with the Personification of Counsel, before c. 1762 National Gallery of Art

A woman holds and looks toward a nude, young child, who sits on her lap and looks out at us, smiling, in this vertical painting. They both have pale skin and thin, gold halos floating above their heads.

Raphael The Niccolini-Cowper Madonna, 1508 National Gallery of Art

A man wearing armor, sitting astride a cream-white horse, drives a long lance down at a lizard-like dragon as a woman kneels with her hands in prayer in the landscape beyond in this vertical painting.

Raphael Saint George and the Dragon, c. 1506 National Gallery of Art

The image shows a person standing upright, facing slightly to the right. The person has indistinct facial features with a mustache and medium-length dark hair, wearing a dark overcoat and trousers with a white collar.

James McNeill Whistler Alexander Arnold Hannay, c. 1896 National Gallery of Art

A young woman draws on an oval surface with white chalk while three winged, baby-like putti gather nearby, all on a bank of pale pink clouds in this horizontal painting.

François Boucher Allegory of Painting, 1765 National Gallery of Art

A woman wearing flowing, pastel-colored robes and two, winged, child-like putti gather on a bank of clouds among musical instruments and sheet music in this horizontal painting. The people all have pale, pink-tinged skin.

François Boucher Allegory of Music, 1764 National Gallery of Art

Towering, pale, celery-green trees frame a view of a lush park with about a dozen elegantly dressed, light-skinned men and women in this vertical landscape painting.

Jean-Honoré Fragonard A Game of Hot Cockles, c. 1775/1780 National Gallery of Art

A man wearing loose, ivory-white clothing stands flanked by two groups of people in this horizontal painting. All the people have pale or peachy skin except for one person, who may have a brown mask.

Antoine Watteau The Italian Comedians, probably 1720 National Gallery of Art

Twelve people and one child stand, sit, or kneel along a riverbank in this horizontal painting. All the people have pale or tanned skin, and are muscular.

Nicolas Poussin The Baptism of Christ, 1641/1642 National Gallery of Art

This painting shows a man seated in a wooden chair, facing slightly to the right with his hands resting on his lap. He has pale, wrinkled skin, a large nose, prominent cheekbones, a thin, closed mouth, and short dark hair.

Thomas Eakins Archbishop Diomede Falconio, 1905 National Gallery of Art

This oval painting shows a cherubic figure floating in mid-air with one leg bent and arms outstretched. The cherub has curly hair, a round face, and rosy cheeks, and they are smiling gently.

Jean-Honoré Fragonard Love as Folly, c. 1773/1776 National Gallery of Art

This painting image depicts a cherubic child in a garden setting. The child is standing with one foot in front of the other and has small wings on their back.

Jean-Honoré Fragonard Love the Sentinel, c. 1773/1776 National Gallery of Art

A man with pale skin, wearing a gold-embroidered amber-yellow jacket and tomato-red pants, stands in front of a rocky outcropping with a distant view beyond in this vertical portrait painting.

Anthony van Dyck Henri II de Lorraine, c. 1634 National Gallery of Art

The head and shoulders of a young woman with gold-tinted, pale skin looks out over our right shoulder from against a tomato-red background in this vertical painting.

James McNeill Whistler Alice Butt, c. 1895 National Gallery of Art

Painted entirely with tones of white and gray, a pudgy, winged baby-like putto, Cupid, holds onto a wheel in this vertical canvas. Cupid’s body is angled to our left, where he hunches over the shoulder-high wheel.

Titian Cupid with the Wheel of Time, c. 1515/1520 National Gallery of Art

Shown from the chest up against a black background, a man with peachy skin wears a gold and rose-pink cloak in this vertical portrait painting.

Giovanni Bellini Giovanni Emo, c. 1475/1480 National Gallery of Art

Shown from the hips up, a nude woman stands between a table in front of her and a clothed man behind her, against a deep landscape in this vertical painting. The man rests one hand on her shoulder and holds up a mirror with the other.

Titian Allegory of Love, c. 1520/1540 National Gallery of Art

Nine people are gathered in a landscape around the gaunt body of a young man being carried on a cloth in the lower half of this vertical painting. All the people have pale skin tinged with yellow, and all but one have shiny gold halos.

Fra Angelico The Entombment of Christ, c. 1450 National Gallery of Art

A partially nude woman with pale, peachy skin sits to our left looking into a mirror held up by a nearly nude, winged child to our right in this vertical painting.

Titian Venus with a Mirror, c. 1555 National Gallery of Art

Dozens of people line up around a shed-like structure and around stone ruins to kneel before a woman and baby at the lower center of this circular painting. All the people have pale skin.

Fra Angelico The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1440/1460 National Gallery of Art

A woman kneels, angled to our left, and tips her face down toward a naked baby propped on a pillow against a pile of hay in a shed-like structure in this round painting.

Sandro Botticelli The Virgin Adoring the Child, 1480/1490 National Gallery of Art

Men and women line up to either side of a man seated on a throne in this long, horizontal painting.

Giovanni Bellini An Episode from the Life of Publius Cornelius Scipio, after 1506 National Gallery of Art

Shown from the hips up in a room on the far side of a ledge, a young woman props up a naked baby so he stands on a cushion in this vertical painting.

Albrecht Dürer Madonna and Child [obverse], c. 1496/1499 National Gallery of Art

Shown from about the waist up, a man with pale, peachy skin, wearing a marine-blue greatcoat over several layers of clothing, looks out at us in this vertical portrait painting.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Marcotte d'Argenteuil, 1810 National Gallery of Art

A group of four people gather around a person in a bed, seen through an open doorway to our left, while a man and woman stand near a second doorway of a beige building in this horizontal painting. All the people have pale skin.

Fra Angelico The Healing of Palladia by Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian, c. 1438/1440 National Gallery of Art

Shown from the waist up, an older, pale-skinned man wearing clerical robes gestures to our right with one hand and turns his head to look off to our left in this vertical portrait painting.

Titian Cardinal Pietro Bembo, 1539/1540 National Gallery of Art

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