Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
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Details
- Artist
- Paul Gauguin
- Date
- 1891
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 44 3/4 x 34 1/2 in. (113.7 x 87.6 cm)
- Department
- European Paintings
- Holding institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Palette
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- Image provider
- metropolitan-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Bequest of Sam A. Lewisohn, 1951
Art Genome Taxonomy
12 tags
Subject Matter
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Landscapes Both · 98%
The catalog lists Landscapes as a subject, and the image contains an extensive outdoor setting with vegetation and a distant background.
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Madonna and Child Both · 98%
The catalog identifies the Virgin Mary and Jesus, while the image shows a woman carrying a child in a devotional grouping and a haloed figure above them.
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Deities and Holy Figures Metadata · 96%
The catalog lists Angels, the Virgin Mary, and Jesus among the subjects; a haloed, elevated figure is also directly visible in the image.
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Flora Visual · 99%
Leaves, palms, flowering plants, shrubs, and large fruits occupy much of the composition.
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Figures in Nature Both · 94%
Human figures are placed directly within and surrounded by abundant vegetation rather than isolated from the landscape.
Visual Qualities
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Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 90%
The painting uses strong red, yellow, green, blue, pink, and violet passages, especially in the foreground garment, flowers, fruit, and landscape.
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Flatness Visual · 95%
Simplified contours, broad areas of relatively even color, and limited naturalistic modeling create a noticeably flattened pictorial space.
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Patterns Visual · 92%
Floral motifs recur across garments and vegetation, producing a pronounced decorative patterning throughout the scene.
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Dense Composition Visual · 88%
Figures, plants, fruit, and landscape elements are closely layered across the tall picture surface, particularly in the upper and middle sections.
Medium and Techniques
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Oil Painting Metadata · 99%
The Metropolitan Museum of Art classifies the work as a painting and records the medium as oil on canvas.
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Painting Visual · 99%
The image is a vertically oriented painted composition with multiple figures, vegetation, and a landscape setting.
Time Periods
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Late 19th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The catalog dates the work to 1891, placing it in the late nineteenth century.
Source & rights
Paul Gauguin. Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary). The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
High-resolution sources
- Original image ↗ 2,928 × 3,722 · Metropolitan Museum Of Art · Available