Keywords: George Hare - Victory of Faith.jpg Artwork creator George Hare LangSwitch Two sleeping Christian martyrs awaiting to be devoured by wild beasts seen behind right Two Christian maidens nude one fair the other a negress lying asleep on some straw on the pavement before a lion's cage through the bars of which the animals are glaring at the figures Academy Notes from the Royal Academy of Arts 1889 right Victory of Faith represents two converts to Christianity - a Caucasian and Ethiopian mistress and maid - asleep on their dungeon bed of straw and is masterful in design whilst contrast is effected by opposites without any resort to glaring or overpowering leading lights 1893 review of the Chicago's World's Fair printed in the Otago Witness 1889 Size cm 78 48 National Gallery of Victoria object history ProvenanceEvent 1905 gift National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne an anonymous donor exhibition history Exhibited at the Royal Academy summer exhibition 1891 Temporary Exhibition World's Fair Chicago 1893 http //www oceansbridge com/paintings/artists/special/big/George_hare_The_Victory_of_Faith_color jpg PD-old-auto-1923 1933 Other versions George Hare 1889 in art National Gallery of Victoria - Western painting Women with lions in art Christian martyrs of the Roman era Paintings of nude recumbent females supine Hare Paintings of sleeping recumbent females Prisoners in paintings Dungeons in art Servants in art Female servants Damnatio ad bestias Hay in art Two nude women Nude or partially nude sleeping women |