The Syracusan Bride leading Wild Animals in Procession to the Temple of Diana

The Syracusan Bride Leading Wild Animals in Procession to the Temple of Diana, also known as A Syracusan Bride Leading Wild Beasts in Procession to the Altar of Diana, is an oil painting by the English artist Frederic Leighton, which was first exhibited, to a favourable reception, at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1866.

[1] The Syracusan bride leads a lioness, and these are followed by a train of maidens and wild beasts.

[2] "One day came Anaxo daughter of Eubulus our way, came a-basket-bearing in procession to the temple of Artemis, with a ring of many beasts about her, a lioness one.

"[3] Sketches for portions of the picture and the squared tracing for the complete design can be seen in the Leighton House Collection.

[4] Russell Barrington, writing in 1906, praised the "richness of arrangement combined with the fair aerial atmosphere appropriate to a Grecian scene".