Shown from the knees up, a young woman sits nuzzling a baby in her lap in this vertical painting. They both have pale skin tinged with pink. The woman’s body is angled to our right with her head in profile. A narrow, white scarf ties around her dark brown hair, leaving soft tendrils brushing the side of her face and neck. Her eyes are lowered, and her pursed, rose-pink lips almost touch the infant’s upturned face. A sea-blue mantle is draped across her back and one shoulder, and wraps around to lie across her lap. Ivory-white fabric drapes across her neckline over a voluminous, coral-red…
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Madonna and Child

painter Simon Vouet (French, 1590 - 1649)

1633

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 110.3 × 89.4 cm (43 7/16 × 35 3/16 in.) ; framed: 137.8 × 118.43 × 8.89 cm (54 1/4 × 46 5/8 × 3 1/2 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Chester Dale Fund
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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