frenchhistory: Jules Lefebvre, Lady Godiva, 1891, huile sur toile, 620 x 390 cm, Collection M
frenchhistory: Jules Lefebvre, Lady Godiva, 1891, huile sur toile, 620 x 390 cm, Collection Musée de Picardie, Amiens (Cliché Claude Gheerbrant). @credits Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836–1911) was a French figure painter, educator and theorist. Lady Godiva was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to legend, rode naked through the streets of Coventry, in England, in order to gain a remission of the oppressive taxation imposed by her husband on his tenants. -- source link
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