A woman is shown from the waist up behind a ledge, on which a baby stands in front of a gold background in this vertical painting. Both people have pale skin, blond hair, light brown eyes, and small, pale pink lips. To the right, the woman’s body is angled slightly to our left, toward the child. Her head tips down so her forehead overlaps the baby’s head. The woman has close-set, almond-shaped eyes under thin brows. Her hair is pulled back and her head encircled with a string of pearls and a red bead or gem, which rests in the middle of her forehead. Her hair is also partially covered by a…
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Madonna and Child

Carlo Crivelli (Venetian, c. 1430/1435 - 1495)

c. 1490

Medium
tempera on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 32.8 x 24.7 cm (12 15/16 x 9 3/4 in.) ; support (includes frame, carved from single piece of wood): 39 x 30.9 cm (15 3/8 x 12 1/8 in.)
Culture
Venetian
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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