Introduction and background, extensive references including English translations, and a complete illustrated table of contents of this series.
Category Archive: Painting
How a young man tricked a young woman into making a vow to marry. When attempts to marry her to another failed, they were finally united.
In the summer of 1912 she travelled north to paint First Nations peoples, and returned to exhibit 200 of her paintings in Vancouver in 1913.
Threshing cut cereal using flails, horses towing a roller, oxen trampling the corn, a sledge, a hand-cranked machine, and a large threshing machine. With Monet’s grainstacks.
King Candaules killed, Phryné acquitted of impiety, Musidora watched while bathing, a nude on a beach, and Bonnard’s partner Marthe.
Polyphemus watching the naked Acis, King David watching Bathsheba, two old elders watching Susanna bathing, each of them voyeurs.
Daedalus and son Icarus try to escape the island of Crete by flying with artificial wings. Icarus flies too close to the sun, melting the wax holding his wings together, and drowns.
Later landscapes from 1880, by Boudin, Vincent van Gogh, Gauguin, Renoir, and others, prior to their decline in the early 20th century.
Landscapes featuring women washing linen and clothes from Isabey, Jongkind, Boudin, Berthe Morisot, Sisley and others.
Born in Victoria, British Columbia, she started painting First Nations totems in 1907, and decided to document them on the NW coast.
The Eclectic Light Company 