File:1868 Frederic Leighton - Actaea.jpg

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"Actaea, the Nymph of the Shore" by Frederic Leighton
Frederic Leighton: Actaea, the Nymph of the Shore  wikidata:Q21749056 reasonator:Q21749056
Artist
Frederic Leighton  (1830–1896)  wikidata:Q160252 s:en:Author:Frederic Leighton q:ta:பிரடெரிக் லைய்ட்டான்
 
Frederic Leighton
Description English-British painter, sculptor, politician and drawer
Date of birth/death 3 December 1830 Edit this at Wikidata 25 January 1896 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Scarborough Edit this at Wikidata London Edit this at Wikidata
Work period circa 1855-1896
Work location
London; City of Brussels; Paris; Frankfurt; Rome; Algiers; Constantinople; Aswan; Damascus Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q160252
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Title
English: Actaea, the Nymph of the Shore
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre mythological painting Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1868
date QS:P571,+1868-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 57.2 cm (22.5 in); width: 102.2 cm (40.2 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,57.2U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,102.2U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1068063
Current location
Ottawa
Accession number
3721
Object history Gift of the Savile Gallery, London, England, 1930
Notes In Greek mythology, Actaea was one of the Nereids or sea nymphs, the fifty daughters of the sea god Nereus, who lived in the Aegean. She is portrayed watching her dolphin companions from the shore. Such classical references allowed the Victorians to accept this erotic image. The distant coastline is one that the artist recorded while visiting Rhodes in 1867.
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