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Lachrymae, ca. 1894–95, Oil on canvas, 62 x 24 3/4 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Frederic, Lord Leighton (British
Lachrymae, ca. 1894–95, Oil on canvas, 62 x 24 3/4 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Frederic, Lord Leighton (British, Scarborough 1830–1896 London), Leighton titled this work Lachrymae, the Latin word for “tears.” Advance press for the Royal Academy exhibition in London in 1895 described the picture as a “type of stately grief,” noting the woman bent despondently over a funerary monument; the withered wreath at her feet; and the cypresses, symbolic of mourning
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