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Luna depicts the Moon personified as a young woman with blond wavy hair, draped in blue robes and resting in the crescent of the moon. The ropes in which she is entwined may symbolise bondage to her constant round. The artist may also have had in mind the classical idea of the Moon goddess as controller of destiny and her ropes, therefore, representing fate.

The model is Jane Hales.

The extraordinary suggestion, which has been published, that this work could be a self portrait is based on a misunderstood anecdote recounted by Mrs Stirling suggesting that Mrs Pickering invited Lord Salisbury to 'Come and see Evelyn's picture' and on being shown it he remarked 'Whatever made her pose like that?'.