In original carved and gilt wood frame

The work is a contemporary derivation of the 1890 painting by Frederic Leighton preserved at the Leighton House Museum in London. One of the leading exponents of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, which he joined after his move from Paris to London in 1860, Leighton was a multifaceted and extraordinarily talented artist, whose works, that depict the ancient world cloaked in a timeless aura capable of transcending the then prevailing dictates of the academic world and of combining intensity of representation and decorative needs, soon became true symbols of Pre-Raphaelite art, together with the imaginary of other great artists of the same circle such as Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti: this iconographic success and the strong market demand favored the reproduction of the artist's most famous paintings, as in the case of the proposed work, which stands out for its high quality and strict adherence to the original model, even in the rich carved frame of classic taste