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Pale lithograph of a woman in profile with bare shoulders, against a yellow-green background with glowing shapes and roses at lower left.

She Was More Beautiful Than Dreams, plate seven from Love

A soft-focus lithograph of a woman in profile, shown from the bare shoulders up, her head turned left against a green-yellow background with glowing window-like forms. Pale roses sit in the lower left corner, and the image is printed in muted pinks, greens and yellows on ivory paper.

Artist
Maurice Denis
Date
1898, published 1899
Medium
Lithograph in pale pink, slate blue, yellow-green, and pale olive on light ivory wove paper
Source
Art Institute of Chicago
Size
1686 × 2197 px
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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1899).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, John H. Wrenn Memorial Collection