Musidora: The Bather ’At The Doubtful Breeze Alarmed’

William Etty (English, 1787-1849) - Musidora: The Bather ’At The Doubtful Breeze Alarmed’, 1846 (Oil on canvas. Tate. From James Thomson’s The Seasons, 1730)

“How durst thou risk the soul-distracting view
As from her naked limbs of glowing white,
Harmonious swelled by nature’s finest hand,
In folds loose-floating fell the fainter lawn,
And fair exposed she stood, shrunk from herself,
With fancy blushing, at the doubtful breeze
Alarmed, and starting like the fearful fawn?
Then to the flood she rushed.”

Sunny Interior with Reading Woman

Robert Panitzsch (Danish, 1879-1949) - Sunny Interior with Reading Woman, 1945 (Oil on canvas) - Panitzsch produced work for the museum of Decorative Arts in Copenhagen and was allowed to copy the many examples of antique and renaissance furniture and furnishings, which he incorporated in his paintings. He became a master at painting sumptuous interior views, full of colour and light.

Hannelore Knuts and Frank Brown

Hannelore Knuts and Frank Brown in artist’s studio in “The Artist’s Way” for Vogue Italia, October 2004 - Knuts, Brown, and Elise Crombez pose as muse, model, and artist in this off-beat editorial. Here, Brown drinks and smokes while likely inspecting a painting in progress. Knuts, looking a bit bored with the process, simply poses...