Frederic Leighton · c. 1878
Winding the Skein
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Two Greek girls on a sunlit terrace above the sea, one seated in white holding a skein of wool while the other, in red and white, winds it into a ball — Leighton's classical idyll shown at the Royal Academy in 1878. Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Up to 19.6 × 12 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of Winding the Skein
Winding the Skein was one of two canvases Leighton hung at the Royal Academy in 1878, the year he became its President; the other was Nausicaa. Two Greek girls work on the flat roof of a house that looks over a distant sea and mountains. The seated girl in white holds the skein of wool and the younger one, in red and white, winds it into a ball. Wikipedia compares the quiet theme to the earlier Music Lesson.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Frederic Leighton
Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton,, known as Sir Frederic Leighton between 1878 and 1896, was a British Victorian painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical, and classical subject matter in an academic style. His paintings were enormously popular and expensive, during his lifetime, but fell out of critical favour for many decades in the early 20th century.
All Frederic Leighton prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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