A kneeling pregnant woman, an older, white-bearded man, a winged angel, and two people smaller in scale are angled to our left in this vertical panel, which has an arched top. All the people have pale skin. The pregnant woman, Mary, takes up most of the composition. She has an oval face with small features, a slight double chin, and pale pink lips. She has long, wavy blond hair under a gold headband, and a ring of Latin text creates a halo farther out from her head. Her midnight blue, almost black, cloak is lined with spring green and edged with gold. She grips the edge of her cloak with her…
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The Expectant Madonna with Saint Joseph

painter French 15th Century

c. 1425/1450

Medium
tempera on European walnut
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
image: 70.5 × 35 cm (27 3/4 × 13 3/4 in.) ; with integral frame: 83.5 × 47.63 × 7.62 cm (32 7/8 × 18 3/4 × 3 in.) ; framed (shadow box): 93.98 × 58.42 × 10.16 cm (37 × 23 × 4 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-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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