This is a painting depicting an angel crowning a seated woman in a dark landscape. The angel has white wings with hints of pink and green, pale skin, and short, golden hair. They are draped in a flowing white robe, and have one hand extended upward and the other placing a golden crown on the woman's head. The woman sits below the angel, near the bottom left corner of the painting. Her eyes are closed, and she has one hand placed on her chest. She also has pale skin and golden hair, and she wears a draping white garment that hangs loosely off of her shoulders and is tied at the waist with…
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Mercy's Dream

Daniel Huntington (American, 1816 - 1906)

1850

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 227.65 × 167.64 cm (89 5/8 × 66 in.) ; framed: 300.04 × 215.9 cm (118 1/8 × 85 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran, 1869)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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