Inspired By(?) #6 or: Pyle inspired by …Moreau? …Delaunay? …Chassériau? …Leighton? …Hokusai‽
Howard Pyle
A young man (a poet?) embracing his elusive muse (personified by a mermaid) for the final time?
"And when your fingers find her, she drowns you in her body,
Carving deep blue ripples in the tissues of your mind." ~ Cream, Tales Of Brave Ulysses
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| Howard Pyle - The Mermaid, 1910 |
Gustave Moreau
Hesiod (a poet) and the muse, no mermaid but a Phrygian cap!
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| Gustave Moreau - Hésiode et la Muse, 1857 |
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| Phrygian cap |
Jules-Elie Delaunay
A poet but no muse.
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| Sappho Kissing Her Lyre by Jules-Elie Delaunay |
Théodore Chassériau
A poet and his muse, but again not a mermaid.
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| Hero et Leandre, also known as Le Poete et la Sirene, 1841 |
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| Théodore Chassériau, Apollo and Daphne |
Frederic Leighton
A mermaid and a fisherman, hmm… who is perhaps also a poet?
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| The Mermaid (The Fisherman and the Syren). (From a ballad by Goethe.) (26½ × 18½ in.) R.A. |
Shown in 1858 at the Royal Academy, and again in the 1897 retrospective exhibition, was first entitled The Fisherman and Syren, and afterwards The Mermaid; it is a composition of two small full-length figures, a mermaid clasping a fisherman round the neck. The subject is taken from a ballad by Goethe:
"Half drew she him,
Half sunk he in,
And never more was seen."
Hokusai
WHATEVER.
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| http://www.delart.org/collections/howard_pyle/pyles_inspiration_mermaid.html |
