Shown from the knees up behind a gray ledge, a woman with pale, peachy skin stands holding a palm frond in one hand and a disembodied pair of eyes branching from a stem like a flower in the other in this vertical, arched painting. Against a gold background, the woman’s body faces us, but her head turns to our left even as she cuts her hooded, light gray eyes down to the pair of disembodied eyes she holds to our right. On her oval face, one of her curving brows is lifted, and she has a rounded chin, flushed cheeks, and her pink lips are closed. Her blond hair is pulled up under a sheer white…
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Saint Lucy

Francesco del Cossa (Ferrarese, c. 1436 - 1477/1478)

c. 1473/1474

Medium
tempera on poplar panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 77.2 × 56 cm (30 3/8 × 22 1/16 in.) ; framed: 107.32 × 74.61 × 15.24 cm (42 1/4 × 29 3/8 × 6 in.)
Culture
Ferrarese
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
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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