Feeding of the Phrygians

This work was formulated around an unresolved painting by Pierre-Paul Prud’hon’s ‘L’Abundance’ (c.1812-20). Lowe has painted these central female figures encumbered by breastfeeding Phrygians, referenced from Van Dyck's “Drunken Silenus” (c.1620), and well as the Flesh-eating Horses of Diomedes, originally from Fuseli's illustration of the same name (c.1800-05). The abundant produce and sustenance flowing from the cornucopia in Prud’hon’s original work have been replaced by a ravenous hoard.