Enclosed within the pale, peach-colored walls of a courtyard, two women with two children and three men line up before a man with a gold halo standing in the lower right corner in this vertical painting. All the people have pale or olive-toned skin except for one man, to our left, who has a light brown complexion. The cleanshaven man to our right, Saint Anthony, has light skin, short blond hair, and he wears a gold-trimmed, burgundy-red cloak and pale green hose. His disk-like gold halo has a band of rings near its perimeter. In his left hand, closer to us, he holds a white cloth purse by…
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Saint Anthony Distributing His Wealth to the Poor

painter Master of the Osservanza (Sienese, active late 1420s - early 1440s)

or Possibly painter Sano di Pietro (Sienese, 1405 - 1481)

c. 1430/1435

Medium
tempera on poplar panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 46.4 x 33.6 cm (18 1/4 x 13 1/4 in.) ; overall size: 47.3 x 34.8 cm (18 5/8 x 13 11/16 in.) ; framed: 61.6 x 125.4 x 7.6 cm (24 1/4 x 49 3/8 x 3 in.)
Culture
Sienese
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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