Not on display
- Artist
- Sir Charles Lock Eastlake 1793–1865
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 635 × 508 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by Robert Vernon 1847
- Reference
- N00398
Display caption
Painted in Rome - where Turner could have seen it in Eastlake's studio - this is a realisation of the beautiful island-dweller in Byron's controversial and sensual poem 'Don Juan'. Haidée personifies the philhellenic spirit of the times and a northerner's yearning for the warmth and freedom of the South or the exotic East. This picture is a striking image of a Byronic type, and was considered by the Duke of Wellington to be the best exhibit in the Royal Academy in 1831.
Gallery label, May 1992
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