The Chivalric Vow of the Ladies of the Peacock

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The Chivalric Vow of the Ladies of the Peacock
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Artist Daniel Maclise
Year1835
Type Oil on canvas, history painting
Dimensions169 cm× 292 cm(67 in× 115 in)
Location Government Art Collection

The Chivalric Vow of the Ladies of the Peacock is an 1835 history painting by the Irish artist Daniel Maclise. [1] Depicting a banquet scene, It draws inspiration by the Medieval epic poem Vows of the Peacock by Jacques de Longuyon and a passage from Sir Walter Scott's 1805 poem The Lay of the Last Minstrel. [2]

The work was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1835 at Somerset House in London. Maclise went on to become a noted artist of the Victorian era, celebrated for his The Death of Nelson . Today the painting is in the Government Art Collection, having been acquired in 1977. [3]

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