It is thought to have been inspired either by a painting by Tintoretto of his dead daughter or by a painting by Robert Sully, a friend of the author. Original versions explained that the narrator had been wounded by bandits and had taken opium for the pain,* but later versions do not explain his injury. The narrator looks at a number of works of art in the room and reads from a book which claims to explain them, until he gazes at a portrait of a 
It is thought to have been inspired either by a painting by Tintoretto of his dead daughter or by a painting by Robert Sully, a friend of the author. Original versions explained that the narrator had been wounded by bandits and had taken opium for the pain,* but later versions do not explain his injury. The narrator looks at a number of works of art in the room and reads from a book which claims to explain them, until he gazes at a portrait of a young woman above the fireplace. FTP, so goes what Poe short story, in which the narrator discovers that the painting of the woman was finished just before the artist had discovered the death of his young bride?
It is thought to have been inspired either by a painting by Tintoretto of his dead daughter or by a painting by Robert Sully, a friend of the author.
The Oval Portrait