Image was taken just after midnight on last Friday before Christmas, also known as Black Eye Friday for its drunken revelry

A photograph of police arresting a drunken man outside a Swansea takeaway on “Black Eye Friday” has gone viral, with some comparing it to “a boozy Renaissance painting” and others seeing the influence of French Romanticism.

One admirer of the shot, by Dimitris Legakis, thought it merited a spot alongside the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo: “Wind Street. Swansea. Put it in the Louvre.”

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