The Victory of Faith is an oil on canvas painting by Irish artist Saint George Hare that was completed in 1891.
[a] It is now in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.
It depicts two sleeping nude women, one shackled, apparently intended as Christian martyrs sentenced to death by beasts.
[2] The Victory of Faith is one of several paintings by Hare showing shackled and under-dressed women, another notable example being The Gilded Cage.
A contemporary article in The Homiletic Review called it an "impressive depiction of Christian faith and steadfastness" and described the two women to be in a "sisterly embrace",[3] while a modern description by Kobena Mercer named the work as an example of an interracial lesbian couple, likening it to Les Amis by Jules Robert Auguste.