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Dark-haired woman in a black dress kneels barefoot before an ornate gold box on a rock, with a forest and waterfall behind her.

Pandora (John William Waterhouse, 1896)

A dark-haired woman in a flowing black dress kneels barefoot before an ornate gold box on a stone ledge, bending close to its raised lid. Dense forest and a small waterfall fill the dim background, rendered in soft, painterly oil brushwork.

Artist
John William Waterhouse
Date
1896
Medium
Source
Wikimedia Commons / Wikidata
Size
679 × 1195 px
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Public domain · John William Waterhouse died 1917 and the work dates by 1896; public domain in the US and life+70 countries.
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): John William Waterhouse, via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

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