The painting shows the queen Clytemnestra standing, holding the axe with which she killed her husband Agamemnon when he came back from the Trojan war. This is a famous episode from the Greek mythology.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:John_Collier_(painter)" class="extiw" title="w:en:John Collier (painter)"><span title="British Pre-Raphaelite painter and author (1850-1934)">John Collier</span></a>
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1882<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1882-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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