While I was working on a painting of cleopatra my husband Jim gave me a greeting card that featured this image of the Queen of the Nile by a painter named Arthur B. Charles titled 'An Actress as Cleopatra'. The actress posed in 1914 and happened to be Mercedes de Cordoba, Mr. Charle's wife. .
I painted this image (based on the the greeting card) in oils on 8x10 panel for a friend who has also been supportive of my work through out the years and just recently sent a book about the latest discovered artifacts relating to Cleopatra.
Gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteYes, Gorgeous and that blue is heavenly. I appreciated the story too.
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