Mischief and Repose  1895

by John William Godward

A young woman reclines on a tiger skin on a marble ledge while her companion teases her with a dress pin. They are dressed in diaphanous robes fashioned after chitons worn by women in ancient Greece. Another dress pin and the reclining woman's hair ribbon lie scattered on the marble floor. [br] For over half a century after the continued excavations of Pompeii began in 1...
Size: 
60.6 × 133 cm (23 7/8 × 52 3/8 in.)
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of The Getty

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  1. Shame there are not larger enlargements here. This was most likely inspired by the master, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema.