One Art WorldLeighton’s Flaming June, Frick Collection, June 9 – September 6, 2015 by Jai Imbrey, PhD. Frederic Leighton (1830–1896), Flaming June, ca. 1895. Oil on canvas. Museo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc. To sleep perchance to dream… A beautiful woman in a flame colored gown slumbers on a marble bench overlooking a radiant sea. She sleeps with the total abandon of the young. Her ro
