ID: 700001718 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001718	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Asterié (oil painting (visual work); Edward John Poynter (British painter, 1836-1919); 1904; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington, Welling...; 1960-0001-1)

Note: Horace’s verse and Poynter’s painting carry a message about the social importance of female chastity, which some commentators have suggested may have had special appeal to conservatives in early twentieth-century Britain. The protagonist, left at home in Greece while her husband is away in the service of the state, is being pursued by the god Zeus. As her would-be lover lurks restlessly in the street below, she looks out with an ambiguous air, allowing the viewer either to cluck piously about woman’s sensuality and weakness of character or to praise the reliably self-denying virtue of the good woman. Carnations, seen in a vase on the window shelf and in the woman’s hair, symbolise love and marital fidelity, playing up the moral question at the heart of the story: will Asterié prove virtuous or not? (Pamela Gerrish Nunn, 2009)

Titles:

Asterié (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

oil painting (visual work) [300033799] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, paintings (visual works), <paintings by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1904

Creator Display:

Edward John Poynter (British painter, 1836-1919) [preferred,VP]

painter Poynter, Edward John (British painter, 1836-1919) [500032375]

Locations:

Current: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand) [500311561] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1960-0001-1

Credit Line: Gift of Sir Alexander Roberts, 1960

Creation: England [7002445] United Kingdom (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: oil on canvas

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

	canvas (textile material) [300014078]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>)

Dimensions: Support: 1400 (Height) x 1100 (Width) mm; Frame: 1640 (Height) x 1337 (Width) x 55 (Depth) mm

General Subject:

human figures (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Asteria [901000377]
	.....((Greek characters, Greek iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	flowers (plant materials) [300264247]
	.....(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material) (AAT)

	window [300002944]
	.....(Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, architectural elements, <openings and opening components>, openings (architectural elements), <openings by form>, <windows and window components>) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Asterié	........ [VP,TePapa]
	........ Te Papa online (2000-) http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/ObjectDetails.aspx?oid=44570; accessed 15 August 2012
	........ Te Papa spreadsheet (2012)

Subject: ....... [VP,TePapa]

....................... Te Papa spreadsheet (2012)

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Te Papa online (2000-) accessed 15 August 2012