A young woman sits with a small child standing on her lap on an ornate throne as a third person, tiny in scale, kneels and looks up from the lower left corner in this tall, narrow, vertical painting, which has an arched top. The woman and child have pale skin and flat gold halos behind their heads, and the tiny person near the corner has light brown skin. The woman’s body faces us and her head tilts to her right, our left, toward the child, but she cuts her pale eyes down and slightly to our right. She has a delicate, long nose and her small lips are closed in a straight line. A white veil…
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Madonna and Child Enthroned with Donor

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

1470

Medium
tempera on poplar panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 125.3 x 50.7 cm (49 5/16 x 19 15/16 in.) ; overall (including unpainted margins): 129.5 x 54.4 cm (51 x 21 7/16 in.) ; framed: 185.4 x 91.8 x 7.9 cm (73 x 36 1/8 x 3 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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