Acrylic on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

This artwork comes with an external frame

Wagner's epic Opera, The Ring Cycle: Die Walküre

Background of the Opera:
Fafner has changed into a dragon and become guardian of the Ring and gold.
Wotan has begotten nine daughters, the Valkyries, and he has descended to Earth under the name of Wälse and married a mortal woman resulting in the twins Siegmund and Sieglinde.
The twins run away pursued by Sieglinde's husband, Hunding, although they are destined to meet in a duel.
Brünnhilde, defies Wotan's orders to help Hunding win the duel and instead shields Siegmund, Wotan angrily returns and breaks Siegmund's magic sword with his spear, allowing Hunding to slay Siegmund. In remorse Wotan slays Hunding and sets off to punish Brünnhilde.
The warrior maidens gather one-by-one in the famous "Ride of the Valkyries", with the last to arrive being Brünnhilde, who brings with her the dejected Sieglinde and informs her that she is about to become the mother of another hero and for this reason she should seek shelter in the forest.

This painting portrays Wotan's punishment of Brünnhilde. Wotan informs her she is to lie upon a mountain top in a trance and become the bride of the first man to wake her. Thus she will cease being a goddess and become a mortal woman. A circle of fire will be drawn around her so that none but a hero shall wake her. Siegmund's broken sword lies at the bottom of the painting.