Painting date: 1906
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 161.3 x 123.2 cm
Location: Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland

The fifty daughters of Danaüs, King of Argos, were commanded in obedience to a prophecy to murder their husbands on their wedding night; all but one obeyed, and were punished by having to draw water in sieves from a deep well, or by pouring it endlessly into a vessel from which it continually escaped.