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Elaine  1874

by Toby Edward Rosenthal

Toby Edward Rosenthal found inspiration for this composition in[i] Idylls of the King[/i], a 19th-century version of the Arthurian legends written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. In the poem, Elaine dies of a broken heart after being spurned by Sir Lancelot; Rosenthal’s painting depicts Elaine’s postmortem voyage from Astolat to Camelot: “In her right hand the lily, in her left ...
Size: 
97.9 × 158.8 cm (38 9/16 × 62 1/2 in.)
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago