A woman and two small children, all with pale skin, sit on a rocky ledge in front of a hilly landscape in this vertical painting. The woman, to our right, holds one child on her lap and that child reaches to embrace the second child kneeling next to the woman, to our left. The woman, Mary, sits with her knees angled slightly to our right. She turns her face toward the child in her lap, to our left, but looks with shadowed eyes down in front of her. She has a long, delicate nose, rose-blushed cheeks, and her pale lips curl gently in a smile. Golden brown hair is parted down the middle over a…
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Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John

Attributed to painter Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina (Spanish, active 1505/1531)

c. 1505

Medium
oil and tempera on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 78.4 x 64.1 cm (30 7/8 x 25 1/4 in.) ; framed: 103.5 x 89.5 x 9.8 cm (40 3/4 x 35 1/4 x 3 7/8 in.)
Culture
Spanish
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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