Edmund Blair Leighton (1853-1922)

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Edmund Blair Leighton (1853-1922)

The Charity of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary

signed with initials 'E.B.L.'; oil on panel
10½ x 8in. (26.7 x 20.3cm.)

拍品专文

This is a version of the picture that Blair Leighton exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1915 (no.687).

St. Elizabeth (1207-1231) was the daughter of King Andrew II of Hungary, and married Louis, Landgrave of Thuringia. The composition shows her distributing bread to the poor during the famine of 1226.