The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John, Saint Jerome, and Saint Mary Magdalene [right panel]
A young woman with pale skin and flushed cheeks stands in a landscape looking to our upper left in this round-topped vertical painting. Her body faces us in the center of the scene. Her fingers are interlaced at her waist, and her head tips slightly to our left. Honey-brown hair cascades over her shoulders, and her hazel eyes roll up under thin brows. She has a short nose and a small, pale pink mouth. A translucent scarf is tied around the full-length, pine-green mantle that drapes across her shoulders and wraps around the V-neck of her rose-red robe. A wine-red inset fills the neckline, and a matching belt is tied around her waist. She stands barefoot on the dirt ground, which is scattered with pebbles. Plants grow and bloom, including a blue iris, in shallow water along the bottom edge of the composition. A lidded pitcher with a narrow neck and scrolling handles sits on a flat rock next to her right knee. Taller, peanut-brown rock formations pile up beyond her under a powder-blue sky. Tawny-brown and sage-green trees, leafy plants, and shrubs sprout among the rocks. Beyond the woman is an open gate in a wooden fence built into one of the rock formations to our right, and sage-green hills dotted with moss-green trees roll out along the left side of the painting.
Details
- Palette
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- Dimensions
- right panel: 95 × 30.1 cm (37 3/8 × 11 7/8 in.) framed: 134 × 165.1 × 17.15 cm (52 3/4 × 65 × 6 3/4 in.)
- Department
- CIS-R
- Holding institution
- National Gallery of Art
- Image provider
- national-gallery-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Art Genome Taxonomy
12 tags
Subject Matter
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Deities and Holy Figures Metadata · 98%
The catalog title identifies the work as part of a Crucifixion ensemble containing the Virgin and several saints.
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Figures in Nature Visual · 99%
A single full-length woman is positioned within and surrounded by a natural landscape of rock formations, trees, and ground vegetation.
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Landscapes Visual · 99%
The composition is dominated by a rocky terrain with trees, distant hills, open sky, and a path extending through the scene.
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Flora Visual · 99%
Trees, leafy shrubs, flowering plants, and aquatic vegetation are distributed throughout the foreground and background.
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Water Visual · 92%
Shallow water with aquatic plants is visible along the lower edge of the composition.
Visual Qualities
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Earth Tones Visual · 96%
Ochre, tawny brown, muted green, and subdued blue dominate the palette, creating an earthy overall effect.
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Highly Detailed Visual · 97%
The painting gives sustained attention to small-scale details in foliage, rocks, garments, pebbled ground, pitcher, fence, and flowers.
Medium and Techniques
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Painting Metadata · 99%
The National Gallery of Art classifies the object as a painting.
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Oil Painting Metadata · 99%
The museum record specifies the medium as oil on panel transferred to canvas.
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Oil on Panel Metadata · 98%
The medium is explicitly recorded as oil on panel transferred to canvas, identifying the original panel support.
Time Periods
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15th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The catalog dates the work to circa 1482/1485, placing it in the fifteenth century.
Materials
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Wood Metadata · 82%
The catalog identifies the original support as panel; this conventionally indicates wood, although the work was subsequently transferred to canvas.
Source & rights
Pietro Perugino. The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John, Saint Jerome, and Saint Mary Magdalene [right panel]. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington.