who's it by

[sammmo]

I have a picture at home of a naked woman standing with her back towards you, her hair is sort of put up and shes looking down towards her right hand sid at a mythical type creature which is sitting like a dog looking up at the girl and this creature has a human type face and two very big horns coming upwards and pointing towards the girl.. any ideas of who painted this and whats it called?

[Octavius]

Its a bit obscure!

Could it be... Ishtar, The Babylonian Goddess of Fertility and Love, by Ernest Charles Wallcousins?

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/MEPOD /10024914.jpg

[swedeheart]

Sounds like the beast may be a manticore (they sport the odd horn now and then).

[swedeheart]

(Just in case I made the manticore sound like a unicorn by saying "the odd horn" : Didn't mean it that way. When they've got horns, they got two.)

[swedeheart]

they've

okay this foreigner is signing off...

[sammmo]

thanks swedeh, yes it does look like a manticore sitting like a dog to the right of her just looking up at her and she looks like a godess i suppose looking down towards him very timidly.. i've been trying for ages to find out who the artist is.. anybody else got any ideas?