The Blind Girl

The Blind Girl is an 1856 oil painting by the English artist John Everett Millais, showing two young traveling beggars, believed to be sisters, resting by the roadside after a rainstorm near the town of Winchelsea. One sister is blind and holds a concertina; a double rainbow arcs across the sky behind them, visible to the sighted sister but not to her blind companion, and a butterfly rests undisturbed on the blind girl's shawl to suggest how still she sits. Millais corrected the rainbow's colors for scientific accuracy after being told, following its first showing in 1856, that a secondary rainbow reverses the color order of the primary one. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/