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Victorian Art in Britain |
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The Fisherman and the Siren by Lord Leighton |
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| This is an early (1858) picture of Leighton's,
and the subject, beloved of Victorian painters, is of a man being
lured to his death by a siren. This picture is based on a poem by
Goethe, whose work Leighton would have learned about from his time
in Germany as a youth. Throughout his life he painted nudes, but
this picture is the most sensual and erotic of all of them. This
picture alone is worth the visit to Bristol. Buy
print from art.com |
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Location : Bristol City Art Gallery |
