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[Lady Godiva, full-length portrait, riding nude on horse] / Jules Lefebvre. – Vintage Wall Art

[Lady Godiva, full-length portrait, riding nude on horse] / Jules Lefebvre., c1900. — historic print
[Lady Godiva, full-length portrait, riding nude on horse] / Jules Lefebvre., c1900.. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic print captures [Lady Godiva, full-length portrait, riding nude on horse] / Jules Lefebvre. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Lady Godiva, full-length portrait, riding nude on horse] / Jules Lefebvre.

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The figure is shown full-length, nude and mounted, which sets this print apart from the many images of the legend that show Lady Godiva only from the shoulders up or half-hidden by her hair. The tale is tied to 11th-century Coventry, where, according to later medieval retellings, she rode through the streets to persuade her husband, Earl Leofric, to lift a heavy tax on the townspeople. The print is credited to Jules Lefebvre, a French academic painter known for idealized figure work, and its U.S. copyright registration suggests it was issued as a reproduction around 1900, when the nude in art was a subject of lively public debate.

Created / publishedc1900.
Medium1 print.
GenrePrints 1900.
Notes18382 U.S. Copyright Office.
SubjectsGodiva,--Lady,--fl. 1040-1080. Horseback riding--1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,273 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-182075

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