| The Siren | |
| Artist: | John William Waterhouse |
| Year: | circa 1900 |
| Height Metric: | 81 |
| Width Metric: | 53 |
| Metric Unit: | cm |
| Imperial Unit: | in |
The Siren is a painting by John William Waterhouse. The painting depicts a siren sitting at the edge of a cliff, lyre in hand, staring down at a shipwrecked sailor floating in water, who in turn is staring up at her.
The picture was painted in 1900 and is now part of a private collection.[1] The estimated sales price for the painting in 2003 was one million pounds.[2]
It was last sold in 2018 by Seymour Stein for about five million USD.[3]