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Description: | Depicted are three young women dressed in Greco-Roman style clothes. One is playing a harp and singing while the others recline and listen. Whether this is an allegorical scene or that of Roman every-day life, it is not known. During the 19th century, every-day scenes of roman life became more popular due to the increase of patronage in art especially from the middle classes. However, in Victorian times the inclusion of the harp represented a faithful woman, so it is possible that this painting is of moral significance. Painted in Capri, Italy, this picture was shown at the Liverpool Autumn Exhibition in 1881.
This oil painting shows three young women dressed in roman costume in a wooded clearing. Two of the women are sitting down, the third stands playing a lyre (a small hand held musical instrument). | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Stringed instruments Woodlands Listening Trees Literature Fine arts Countryside Women Oil painting Oil Paintings Instruments (musical) Victorian period Young women Leisure Paintings Music Dresses People Art collections | Temporal: | 1881
Victorian (1837-1901) | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | ANDERSON; Sophie Gengembre (1823 - 1903) | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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