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Painting of a Tahitian woman in a red pareo carrying a child on her shoulders, with two women and fruit in a tropical landscape.

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary) by Paul Gauguin, 1891

Oil on canvas showing a standing Tahitian woman in a red patterned pareo holding a child on her shoulders, flanked by two women in a tropical landscape. A winged figure with yellow-green tones rises at left, and bananas and fruit fill the foreground beneath an inscription reading Ia Orana Maria.

Artist
Paul Gauguin
Date
1891
Medium
Oil on canvas
Source
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Size
2928 × 3722 px
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Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1891).
Rights checked 2026-11-04 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Sam A. Lewisohn, 1951

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