location: National Gallery of Art / instance of: painting

commissioned by: Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton (1) | Cassiano dal Pozzo (1) | Alfonso d'Este, Lord of Montecchio (1) | Church of St. Augustine (1) | John Johnson (1)

owned by: Peter Arrell Brown Widener (9) | Duveen Galleries (4) | Paul Mellon (3) | Léon de Somzée (3) | Catherine II of Russia (2) | Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky (2) | Andrew W. Mellon (2) | Ambroise Vollard (2) | William A. Clark (2) | Alessandro Contini Bonacossi (2) | Herbert Cook (2) | Samuel H. Kress Foundation (2) | United States of America (1) | Titian (1) | Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (1) | Robert Walpole (1) | Jacques Goudstikker (1) | William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst (1)

movement: Italian Renaissance (16) | rococo (13) | Venetian school (12) | Dutch Golden Age painting (12) | High Renaissance (10) | Flemish Primitives (9) | Impressionism (6) | mannerism (6) | Baroque (5) | Naïve art (4) | neoclassicism (3) | Romanticism (3) | Early Renaissance (3) | German Renaissance (2) | Orientalism (1) | Symbolism (1) | Quattrocento (1) | Proto-Renaissance (1)

genre: portrait (463) | religious art (333) | landscape art (181) | still life (74) | marine art (44) | genre art (30) | self-portrait (15) | mythological painting (12) | group portrait (11) | cityscape (7) | veduta (6) | allegory (6) | floral painting (6) | nude (4) | history painting (4) | capriccio (4) | tronie (3) | animal painting (2)

based on: Nativity of Jesus (1) | Metamorphoses (1) | Girl with a Pearl Earring (1) | Book of Judith (1) | Venus and Adonis (1) | Bride of Christ (1) | The Lacemaker (1) | Saint George and the Dragon (1) | Venus Pudica (1) | The Task (1) | Penitent Magdalene (1) | Venus Blindfolding Cupid (1) | Madonna and Child (1) | Judith and Holofernes (1) | The Descent from the Cross (1) | Sita and Sarita (1) | Forest floor still life with fruit, fish and a bird's nest (1)

artist: George Catlin (343) | anonymous (301) | Gilbert Stuart (47) | Pierre-Auguste Renoir (45) | Claude Monet (27) | Eugène Boudin (24) | Paul Cézanne (23) | Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (23) | Rembrandt (22) | Edgar Degas (21) | Thomas Sully (20) | Édouard Manet (17) | Camille Pissarro (17) | Anthony van Dyck (17) | Édouard Vuillard (17) | Georges Seurat (16) | John Singleton Copley (16) | John Singer Sargent (15)

part of the series: The Voyage of Life (3) | Waterloo Bridge series (3) | Rouen Cathedral Series (2) | The Great Red Dragon Paintings (1) | Watson and the Shark (1)

depicts: tree (340) | boat (98) | woman (91) | house (68) | man (66) | Virgin Mary (62) | Child Jesus (59) | mountain (46) | boy (36) | flower (33) | sky (31) | cloud (28) | Jerome (18) | mother (17) | girl (12) | sitting (12) | book (11) | bird (11)

material used: oil paint (2,021) | canvas (1,573) | panel (363) | tempera (54) | wood (40) | canvas (15) | cardboard (10) | fresco (9) | copper (8) | gold (6) | color (3) | linen (2) | leather (1) | graphite (1) | metal (1) | paper (1) | ink (1) | collage art (1)

collection: Samuel H. Kress Collection (388) | Andrew W. Mellon collection (252) | Corcoran Gallery of Art (130) | Cook collection (23) | Hermitage Museum (16) | Sammlung Schloss Rohoncz (3) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (2) | Widener Collection (2) | Museum of Fine Arts (1) | Rijksmuseum (1) | Calouste Gulbenkian Museum (1) | Mauritshuis (1) | Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (1) | J. Paul Getty Museum (1) | private collection (1) | Von der Heydt Museum (1) | Birmingham Museum of Art (1) | Orleans Collection (1)

part of: Madonna and Child with Saints Andrew, Benedict, Bernard, and Catherine of Alexandria with Angels (3) | Pendant portraits of the Bentivoglios (2) | St John the Baptist and Veronica Diptych (2) | San Marco Altarpiece (1) | Watson and the Shark (1) | Self-portraits by Vincent van Gogh (1) | Bras de Seine près de Giverny (1) | Porto San Giorgio Polyptych (1) | polyptych of Saint Augustine (1) | Seven Sacraments (1) | Joseph accused by Potiphar's wife (series) (1) | The Peaceable Kingdom (1) | The Pilgrimage of Life Triptych (1) | None (1) | Three Wise Kings (1)

country of origin: United States of America (845) | Italy (13) | France (8)

exhibition history: Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges (8) | Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting (5) | Corot 1796-1875 (3) | 4th impressionist exhibition (2) | The Renaissance Portrait. From Donatello to Bellini (2) | Francis I and the art of the Netherlands (2) | Corot. The Painter and his Models (2) | Exposition des primitifs français (2) | Monet Collector (2) | Armory Show (1) | Hamilton Palace (1) | Carnegie Institute (1) | galerie Durand-Ruel (1) | Salon of 1864 (1) | 2nd impressionist exhibition (1) | 1st impressionist exhibition (1) | Dahl and Friedrich. Romantic Landscapes (1) | A beautiful lie - Eckersberg (1)

main subject: Madonna and Child (55) | Nativity of Jesus (10) | crucifixion of Jesus (10) | Annunciation (9) | George Washington (6) | Baptism of Jesus (6) | Adoration of the Magi (6) | Adoration of the shepherds (5) | Assumption of Mary (4) | Abraham Lincoln (3) | Peter (3) | Jerome (3) | Jesus among the doctors (3) | Judgement of Paris (3) | Saint George and the Dragon (3) | lamentation of Christ (3) | Saint Martin sharing his cloak (3) | Saint Jerome in the wilderness (3)

location of final assembly: Arles (4) | Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (4) | Italy (1) | Paris (1) | Florence (1) | Auvers-sur-Oise (1)

fabrication method: oil painting (2)