Close to us, six light-skinned men crowd into two small wooden boats that together span the width of this horizontal painting. The bow of the boat to our left overlaps the stern of the boat to our right. In the stern of the boat to our left, along the left edge of the canvas, a man, Jesus sits in profile facing our right. A marine-blue garment drapes around his waist and legs over a rose-pink tunic, and three rays of gold light emanate from the top, front, and back of his head. He raises his left hand toward the other two men in his boat. A bearded, balding man wearing marigold orange kneels…
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The Miraculous Draught of Fishes

painter Jacopo Bassano (Venetian, c. 1510 - 1592)

1545

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 143.5 × 243.68 cm (56 1/2 × 95 15/16 in.) ; framed: 177.8 × 277.5 × 12.7 cm (70 × 109 1/4 × 5 in.)
Culture
Venetian
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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