Herbert James Draper Paintings
Victorian Neoclassicism and Romanticism
Herbert James Draper Paintings 1863
- 1920
Painter, England, Victorian Neoclassicism
Lament for Icarus
Oil on canvas
Private collection
OIL PAINTING: Lament for Icarus
1894 was the beginning of Draper's most productive period. Draper focused mainly on mythological themes from ancient Greece. His painting "The Lament of Icarus" from 1898 won the gold medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900.