NTF based on an old painting that represents Lycurgus, a mythical and probably non-existent figure of a legislator from ancient Sparta, who according to tradition, would have lived between the 9th and 8th century BC. Between 1629 and 1631, Jusepe de Ribera 'Lo Spagnoletto' (1591-1652) made a series of twelve paintings representing characters from Ancient Greece, philosophers, scientists, geographers, or legislators, for the Viceroy of Naples, Fernando Enríquez Afán, III Duke of Alcalá. Later the series was dispersed, only a few works are currently known like this one.