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Kneeling woman in dark robe praying beneath a rainbow, with a winged angel and a haloed infant over water.

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The painting shows a kneeling woman in a dark hooded robe, hands clasped in prayer beside a tree trunk, while a rainbow arcs above her. A winged angel holding a small blue flower and an infant with a faint halo hover over rippling water at the left.

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