laprimevere:The Lady of Shalott. John William Waterhouse, 1894. Oil on canvas.The second of three pa
laprimevere:The Lady of Shalott. John William Waterhouse, 1894. Oil on canvas.The second of three paintings by J. W. Waterhouse that were inspired by Tennyson’s poem “The Lady of Shalott” (1833 / 1842). Interestingly, while the first painting from 1888 features a red-haired model, the other two versions (1894 & 1910) show a dark-haired woman, possibly even the same model, despite the fact that there is a 16-year gap between the second and third painting. Also, the two later paintings have a similar setting, with the lady inside her room and sitting (or standing up from) in front of her loom and mirror, while the first one shows her outside on her way to Camelot. It seems as if Waterhouse worked his way backwards through the poem: he starts with the lady’s journey to Camelot, then paints her on her way outside with the cracked mirror in the background and finally shows her right before she makes her fatal decision to leave, with the mirror still intact but her weaving already interrupted (”I am half-sick of shadows…”). -- source link
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