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Close to us, six light-skinned men crowd into two small wooden boats that together span the width of this horizontal painting. The bow of the boat to our left overlaps the stern of the boat to our right. In the stern of the boat to our left, along the left edge of the canvas, a man, Jesus sits in profile facing our right. A marine-blue garment drapes around his waist and legs over a rose-pink tunic, and three rays of gold light emanate from the top, front, and back of his head. He raises his left hand toward the other two men in his boat. A bearded, balding man wearing marigold orange kneels…

The Miraculous Draught of Fishes

Jacopo Bassano (Venetian, c. 1510 - 1592)

1545 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Patrons' Permanent Fund

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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