Friday, June 7, 2013

Painful Homecoming

Where is the lord, my king (1888) by the British painter Herbert Gustave Carmichael Schmalz (1856-1935). Schmalz depicts here a band of celtic warriors returning from a raid where they lost their king.  They have to answer to his widow who is effectively waiting with her two children.

4 comments:

  1. Beautiful piece, thanks for the highlighting this one!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Fantastic! Wonderful attention paid to historical accuracy in the costumes - not to mention the subtle suggestion of who their enemy was in what looks like a captured Roman standard.

    ReplyDelete
  3. I think, it's a celtic standard. They had this kind of stuff.

    ReplyDelete