Nydia, The Blind Girl Of Pompeii
Nydia, The Blind Girl Of Pompeii c1840 by American Painter Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (1816 – 1868); historical painter who was associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting
This classical art painting depicts Nydia an inspired character from the 1834 novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton – The Last Days of Pompeii.
She is seated in an enclave of sorts, what appears to be a garden wearing a white dress with a red gown wrapped around her legs with read and gold head straps on the front and back of her hair.
She is holding on her lap, a fairly large blue vase with a handle that has an embossed decorative accent of a maiden holding a lit lamp in her right hand tending to another women laying on a couch; with additional gold accents on the handle and around the perimeter of the vase at the top and bottom.
The vase also has a wreath of flowers around its neck and there are also flowers growing from the ground near where she is sitting; as well as trees in the background near a fountain that has a rainbow in front of it; and a pedestal with a stone sculpture behind her.
This is a remastered digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available as a canvas print online.