Shown under an ornately carved stone arch, a young woman holds a baby on her lap as she sits on a curving gold chair flanked by two kneeling angels in this vertical painting. All of the people have pale skin.

Madonna and Child with Angels

Hans Memling (Netherlandish, 1465–1494)

Date
after 1479
Medium
oil on panel
Size
22¾ × 18¼ in (57.6 × 46.4 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1937.1.41. See the museum’s record
Credit
Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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Print
16 × 20 in, filling the paper (trims 0.7 % of the picture)
Center
58 in (147 cm) above the stair line
Madonna and Child with Angels: a 16 × 20 in print hung beside a staircase, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
16 × 20 in portrait print (41 × 51 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0). You may print, share, change and sell it without asking. Read what that means on our image license page, and how to get a good result in how to print a public-domain painting.