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Oil painting of a woman with a gold crown and halo reading a book, dressed in a gold embroidered gown, resting on red velvet.

Woman in a Gold Crown Reading a Book, Halo (1838)

A woman with dark bobbed hair, wearing a gold jeweled crown and a radiant halo, sits reading an open book with her head bowed. She wears a pale gold gown patterned with embroidery and rests the book on a red velvet cloth with gold trim. The oil painting glows against a warm dark background.

Artist
Joseph Désiré Court
Date
1838
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
3034 × 3750 px
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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1838.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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