A woman holding a baby, who stands on her lap, is flanked by two men in a deep landscape in this horizontal painting. At the center of the composition, the woman sits behind a stone ledge. Her pale-skinned, oval face tips to our left, and she looks down and to our right with brown eyes. She has a long, straight nose, round cheeks, a slight double chin, and her pale lips are closed. A white cloth drapes over a translucent veil that covers her forehead. Her indigo-colored dress is edged with gold writing and ornamental designs against a red and black background. A parchment-brown cloth is tied…
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Madonna and Child with Saint Jerome and Saint John the Baptist

Cima da Conegliano (Venetian, c. 1459 - 1517 or 1518)

c. 1492/1495

Medium
oil on poplar panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 102 x 144 cm (40 3/16 x 56 11/16 in.) ; overall: 104 x 146 cm (40 15/16 x 57 1/2 in.) ; framed: 154.62 x 186.06 x 10.8 cm (60 7/8 x 73 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.)
Culture
Venetian
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Andrew W. Mellon 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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