A standing angel with long copper-red hair bows her head as she plays a tall gold harp, her gold-leaf wings spread wide and her ivory gown pooling on the floor against deep burgundy.
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Right for a music room, a dining room or a lounge with burgundy, plum or deep taupe walls. Hushed, rich and quietly musical.
Printable digital download, around 9,000 px on the long edge
The commercial licence covers hotels, offices, restaurants and public spaces
Print it yourself at any size, on metal, acrylic, glass or fine-art paper
On a Samsung Frame TV
Every download also includes a 3840 × 2160 file made for the Samsung Frame and other art-mode TVs: the whole work, uncropped, on a quiet mat in a colour taken from the picture. Send it to the TV with the SmartThings app and show it in Art Mode. All Frame TV art →
How large can I print it?
The file is around 9,000 px on the long edge. That prints crisply to about 75 cm on the long edge at gallery quality, and to 130–170 cm at the distance you look at a picture over furniture. Sizes, paper and framing, in detail →
Which paper or surface?
Gold on dark grounds wants a matte or satin fine-art paper (200–310 gsm), or aluminium for humid rooms; glossy photo paper turns the black into a mirror. The pale works also take satin and baryta papers.
Which licence do I need?
Personal (€9.99) covers your own home and gifts. Any business or space open to the public — a spa, clinic, hotel, office, restaurant — needs the commercial licence (€99.99, one venue, no renewal). The venue guide →
The picture moves from left to right. Her wide left wing reaches to the left edge, and from there the eye follows her bowed head and arms down to her hands on the strings. The tall ornate harp stands at the right side, a second upright gold shape that answers the figure. Her ivory-cream gown falls in deep folds and pools on the floor, the palest area in the work. Around her, the background darkens from burgundy to almost black, so the gold and ivory stand out softly rather than sharply. Up at the top left, faint gold scrolls appear in the dark. Close up the feathers and the carving of the harp reward a slow look. From a distance it is a calm column of light, a moment of music held still.
The mood here is close to the Pre-Raphaelites, the English painters who from 1848 looked back past Raphael to medieval and early Italian art. Edward Burne-Jones, of the movement's second wave, painted tall, grave figures with long hair and heavy, flowing drapery, and with William Morris he designed angels playing instruments for stained glass and tapestry. Music-making angels are a long tradition in Christian art, from the angel choirs of Fra Angelico to the Ghent Altarpiece, where instruments stand for the music of heaven. The Golden Harp is painted after that late Victorian manner: slow, dreamlike and more about listening than performing.
Give it a room with some depth of colour: a dining room, a music corner or a lounge with burgundy, plum, mushroom or deep taupe walls. A dark wood or antique gold frame suits it well, with a narrow cream mat or none at all. Warm evening light from a lamp brings out the gold and makes the dark ground feel velvety. Pair it with The Mosaic Guardian on a dark wall, or with The Lapis Annunciation for a classical pair. A 50 × 75 cm print suits the wall above a piano or a sideboard. At 300 dpi you can print it crisply up to about 91 cm on the long side.
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