A woman with a delicate, translucent halo stands on a stone ledge above an older man who is shown in a smaller scale in the lower right of this vertical, arched painting. Both have pale skin. The woman faces us with her right hand, on our left, pressed to her chest. Her head is turned to look up and to the left with wide, gray eyes under thin brows. Her left knee, on our right, is slightly bent, making her torso lean in that direction. She has a round face with a long nose and a small coral-red mouth, which is open. Her brown hair is covered by a sable-brown veil, and she wears a sleeveless…
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Saint Lucy and a Donor

painter Veronese (Venetian, 1528 - 1588)

Possibly painter Gabriele Caliari (Venetian, 1568 - 1631)

c. 1585/1595

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 180.6 x 115.3 cm (71 1/8 x 45 3/8 in.) ; framed: 207.3 x 141.6 x 13.3 cm (81 5/8 x 55 3/4 x 5 1/4 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
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