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Ruth and Naomi

1886

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The story

Some critics attacked it, but readers of the Pall Mall Gazette voted it the best religious picture of the 1886 Royal Academy. Reviewers of the day saw the two women's embrace as pure friendship, though modern viewers have read it as romantic.

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Object details

Title: Ruth and Naomi
Artist: Philip Hermogenes Calderon
Date: 1886
Culture: Not recorded
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object type: Paintings
Collection: Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (WAG 114)
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.1182
Original image: 1000 × 810 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Philip Hermogenes Calderon. Ruth and Naomi. 1886. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (WAG 114). Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea1182/