Art history meets film history

[strange_complex]

Dear internet,

Does anyone recognise the painting pictured right?

It is a prop in a low-budget film, which appears on screen for only about five seconds and has no role in the plot but is purely a piece of set-dressing. So while it could be an original piece created purely for the film, the odds are that it is either a) a straight copy of a real-world original, or b) a pastiche with readily-identifiable models.

Either way, if anyone can identify the original or the model(s) used to create the pastiche, I'd be very grateful. I am trying to use it to help me figure out exactly when the film is meant to be set, and while I know enough about art to say that a painting like this would have been unlikely before about 1880 or after the First World War, that's about as far as I go.

Full disclosure - the picture is from Hammer's Scars of Dracula, which has no explicit dramatic date, but which I am trying to date from internal clues such as this one. (It's not the only clue I have to go on, but it's the one I need help with.) Sorry the picture isn't particularly brilliant - it is, of course, a cropped screen-cap.

Thank you in advance!



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Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

At first sight it looks late Victorian- Alma Tadema, Leighton, Moore, Collier- someone like that- but the face and hairstyle suggest we're looking at something created c. 1960.

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

1970, but who's counting? :-) Facebook chums likewise suggested Collier, but I think Leighton and Moore are the principal contributors.