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Dream Serenade
Antonio Rivas
Antonio Rivas
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Spanish (1845–1911)
- Date: 1886
- Oil on Canvas, signed and dated lower left
- Size: 29 x 45.5 in. (73.66 x 115.57 cm)
- Frame Size: 34 x 52 inches
about Dream Serenade
In this orientalist painting by Spanish artist Antonio Rivas, a group of women, perhaps a harem are joined together in song, all with mouths wide mid-note.
To the right on a lush settee is a bearded man, the king or a sultan sleeping. He has fallen asleep with the hose of a hookah pipe in his hand. The viewer can discern he is royalty but his grand robe with gold embroidery. The women appear to be an apparition or a dream, none appear to have feet holding them to the ground, and they blur into the background with their gauzy white robes.
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