God Speed  1900

Oil on Canvas [br] Depicting an armored knight departing to war and leaving his beloved. The woman ties a red sash around the knight's arm, which he is meant to return, a medieval custom which assured both parties that they would be reunited, alive and well. [i]God Speed[/i] was the first of several paintings by Leighton in the 1900s on the subject of chivalry, the oth...