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Una
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: Briton Rivière
Riviere depicts the character Una from Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene, showing the young woman accompanied by a lion in an image that combines allegorical meaning with sensitive animal painting.
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Description
Briton Rivière painted Una in 1882 as a quietly moving meditation on innocence, loyalty, and the relationship between human beings and the natural world. The work holds a place in the collection of Bury Art Museum in the United Kingdom and remains one of the more distinctive Victorian paintings to draw on the literary tradition of Edmund Spenser.
The subject comes from Spenser’s sixteenth century allegorical epic The Faerie Queene, in which the character Una, representing Truth and the true church, is left alone in the wilderness and befriended by a lion moved by her innocence. Rivière renders this moment not as drama but as quiet companionship, with Una standing slender and calm beside the lion, whose posture communicates protection rather than threat. The landscape behind them is lush and sunlit, reinforcing the sense of a natural world that responds with gentleness to moral virtue rather than indifference or danger.
Rivière brings careful anatomical study to the lion while softening the animal’s expression to suit the allegorical tone of the scene. The warm, sunlit palette gives the composition a pastoral quality, and the contrast between Una’s white robes and the tawny gold of the lion creates a tonal balance that holds the eye. The painting rewards close attention, with the relationship between the two figures expressed entirely through proximity and body language rather than through any overt narrative gesture.
Each reproduction of Una offered by ByMuseum is a hand-painted oil reproduction created on canvas by skilled artists who study the original composition closely. Brushwork, tonal gradations, and surface texture are reproduced by hand to preserve the visual character of Rivière’s painting rather than approximating it through mechanical means.
- Hand-painted oil reproduction on canvas
- Gallery-wrapped and ready to display
- Available in multiple sizes to suit your space
- Includes a certificate of authenticity
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