Art History people. Today's mystery is:

[Shirley_Ujest]

Identify this

My son left me at a barn sale so he could get this home,” says Chantal Kalinowski of Livonia. “I guess I know where I rate.”

Looking at the large, 3 1/2-by-6-foot print, it’s easy to see why her son was torn. For $50, he picked up the colorful print at an Illinois barn sale a few years ago. The people he bought it from had no idea of its background, only that they had bought it at an auction along with two other prints.

It shows what looks like a mythical scene with writing that could be Latin or French that reads “Cy Yert U Sieges,” and the letters GALAAQ. A tag on the back that has since fallen off read Chicago Art Institute. Another tag reads “Warren Edwards & Co. Fine Arts, N. Clark St., Chicago.”

Expert Frank Boos was intrigued by the print but couldn’t offer a lot of solid information about its subject. He felt it may have some reference to the crusades or the Middle Ages.

“It appears to be an allegorical print or chromo lithography and is in very good condition,” he says. “This may be the largest print I’ve ever seen.”

Determining the date was difficult, but he says it would bring $700 to $1,000 at an auction, not a bad return on a $50 investment.

“I hope your son has a wall large enough to hang this one,” he says. “It’s beautiful.”

Bolding mine.

[Somnambulist]

@Shirley Ujest

Identify this

A bit tricky from the photograph in your link as it’s not all that clear. However, as a starting point, from the lighting and mood, and what I can determine from the subject matter it is reminiscent of the British Victorian neo-classical movement (Leighton, Alma-Tadema, Watts, et al.). Will have a dig around and come back if anything similar turns up.

[capybara]

Yeah, some late 19th-C. pre-Raphaelite business-- not my bag. Medieval topic would be typical of that movement. If it’s a lithograph from that period it could be worth that much, depending on the market-- if it’s a later reprint, who knows? Is this of personal interest to you?
I’m amused by the phrase “writing that could be Latin or French that reads “Cy Yert U Sieges””-- wha? Could be Latin or French writing? What does that mean? I’d like to see a better photo of that writing.