The Chivalric Vow of the Ladies of the Peacock


The Chivalric Vow of the Ladies of the Peacock is an 1835 history painting by the Irish artist Daniel Maclise. Depicting a banquet scene, It draws inspiration by the Medieval epic poem Vows of the Peacockby Jacques de Longuyon and a passage from Sir Walter Scott's 1805 poem The Lay of the Last Minstrel.
The work was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1835 at Somerset House in London. Maclise went on to become a noted artist of the Victorian era, celebrated for his The Death of Nelson. Today the painting is in the Government Art Collection, having been acquired in 1977.