Sujet

The Winged And Poppied Sleep, 1889. Creator: Simeon Solomon.

Légende

The Winged And Poppied Sleep, 1889. The figure who personifies Sleep wears a garland of poppies which from classical times were the flowers associated with sleep and death (and as the source of opium, may also allude to the use of opiate drugs which was then prevalent).

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM26A02_288

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

33,8Mo (3,1Mo) / 25,0cm x 33,9cm / 2950 x 4000 (300dpi)

Mots clés

nature portrait England female women woman people head flower flowers plant plants arts country drug art sleep sleeping British museum English color poppy poppies death garland addiction location century drawing gallery Britain asleep chalk concept opium one person head and shoulders eyes closed drowsy papaver art gallery Colour Eyes Shut 19th century Papaveraceae 1880s nineteenth century Papaver somniferum artistic school Pre-Raphaelite sanguine flowers in hair portrait chalk young women young woman Paul 1889 Paul Verlaine Verlaine Simeon Solomon chalk on paper artistic style Solomon Simeon Sanguine on paper Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museum art centre Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums Heritage Art 19th-century opium poppy Aberdeen Archives