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Dream Idyll (A Valkyrie)  1902

by Edward Robert Hughes

Against an indigo sky, a nubile rider grasps the black wings of a flying steed, her body gleaming in the moonlight, her golden tresses let loose in the wind as she peers down at the stony structures of a city built along a river many miles below. Is this a goddess of antiquity, a fairy, a captured princess? This allusive, seductive, strange, Symbolist scene by...

Size: 
109.5 x 79 cm
Medium: 
gouache and pastel on stretched paper
Credit: 
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons