A knight in armor strides toward two women wearing long gowns in a balustraded terrace in this horizontal painting. The three people all have smooth, pale skin with flushed cheeks. To our left, the man’s entire body is covered in armor except for his face under a raised visor. He has blue eyes, and his rose-red lips are slightly parted. His helmet is topped with a plume of white feathers. There is a red cross on his chest and red fabric wraps over his far shoulder and billows down his back to his shins. He holds a round shield edged in red up over his head with his far arm, and holds a lance…
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The Red Cross Knight

painter John Singleton Copley (American, 1738 - 1815)

1793

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 213.5 x 273 cm (84 1/16 x 107 1/2 in.) ; framed: 345.4 x 285.4 x 11.4 cm (136 x 112 3/8 x 4 1/2 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Gordon Dexter
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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