Shown from the hips up, a woman to our left wears a sapphire-blue robe over a petal-pink dress, and she supports a pudgy, nude infant to our right in this vertical painting. Both have marble-white skin faintly tinged with green, wavy blond hair, and shiny gold halos. Their heads tilt toward each other so the woman’s cheek brushes the top of the baby’s head. She holds his body with one hand nearly flat against his torso and the other, covered with her robe, bracing his back. The baby holds the pinky of her hand against his chest with his left hand, on our right, and wraps his other arm around…
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Madonna and Child

Domenico Veneziano (Florentine, c. 1410 - 1461)

c. 1445/1450

Medium
tempera on poplar panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 83 x 57 cm (32 11/16 x 22 7/16 in.) ; framed: 124.5 x 100.3 x 9.8 cm (49 x 39 1/2 x 3 7/8 in.)
Culture
Florentine
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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