The Lady In The Lake

Colour Me Dead - Chapter 2

How the muse titlates, lures, entraps, haunts

(i) Woman As Water

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(ii) Women In Water

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(iii) Water As Woman

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1. Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres’ The Valpinçon Bather (1808)
2. Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres’ The Source (1856)
3. Gustave Courbet’s The Spring (1862)
4. Francesco Hayez’s Susannah At Her Bath (1850)
5. Alexandre Cabanel’s The Birth Of Venus (1863)
6. William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s The Wave (1898))
7. John Collier’s Water Nymph (1923)

8. John Everett Millais’s Ophelia (1852)
9. John Atkinson Grimshaw’s The Lady Of Shalott (1875)
10. Edward Burne-Jones’ The Last Sleep Of Arthur (1881)
11. Edward Burne-Jones’ The Mirror Of Venus (1898)
12. John William Waterhouse’s Hylas And The Nymphs (1896)
13. John William Waterhouse’s Nymphs Finding The Head Of Orpheus (1900)
14. Knut Ekwall’s Fisherman And The Siren (1870 c)
15. Edward John Poynter’s The Cave Of The Storm Nymphs (1903)
16. Arnold Böcklin’s Triton And Nereid (1887)
17. Arnold Böcklin’s Ocean Breakers (The Sound) (1886)

18. Nils Blommér’s The Neck And Ægir’s Daughters (1850)
19. Francis Danby’s The Deluge (1840)
20. Hans Makart’s The Rhinemaidens (1893)
21. Carlos Schwabe’s The Wave (1907)
22. Franz Stuck’s Wind And Wave (1927)
23. Alfred Kubin’s The Swamp (1903-1905)
24. Max Ernst’s Approaching Puberty (1921)
25. Rene Magritte’s Black Magic (1935)
26. Germaine Richier’s Water (1953-1954)