Courtesan

Begun as a study of George Romney’s drawing ‘John Howard Visiting a Lazaretto’ (c.1794), remnants of this drawing function as an environment for the central female head and torso, inspired by Henry Fuseli’s ‘Courtesan with elaborate headdress,’ (c.1810), and elaborated by caressing hands taken from Guido Reni’s ‘St Cecilia,’ (c.1615).