1900년대의 워터하우스 그림 모음

A Mermaid

painting date: 1900
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 98 x 67 cm
location: Royal Academy of Arts, London, England

This painting was Waterhouse's diploma work for the Royal Academy.

A mermaid (masculine Merman) was a fabled marine creature with the head and upper body of a human being and the tail of a fish. Similar divine or semidivine beings appear in ancient mythologies (e.g., the Chaldean sea god Ea, or Oannes). In European folklore, mermaids (sometimes called sirens) and mermen were natural beings who, like fairies, had magical and prophetic powers. They loved music and often sang. Though very long-lived, they were mortal and had no souls.

Many folktales record marriages between mermaids (who might assume human form) and men. In most, the man steals the mermaid's cap or belt, her comb or mirror. While the objects are hidden she lives with him; if she finds them she returns at once to the sea. In some variants the marriage lasts while certain agreed-upon conditions are fulfilled, and it ends when the conditions are broken.

Though sometimes kindly, mermaids and mermen were usually dangerous to man. Their gifts brought misfortune, and, if offended, the beings caused floods or other disasters. To see one on a voyage was an omen of shipwreck. They sometimes lured mortals to death by drowning, as did the Lorelei of the Rhine, or enticed young people to live with them underwater, as did the mermaid whose image is carved on a bench in the church of Zennor, Cornwall, Eng.

Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Miss Margaret Henderson

painting date: 1900
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 125 x 97 cm
location: Private Collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nymphs finding the Head of Orpheus

painting date: 1900
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 149 x 99 cm
location: Private Collection

 

Traditionally, Orpheus was the son of a Muse (probably Calliope, the patron of epic poetry) and Oeagrus, a king of Thrace (other versions give Apollo). According to some legends, Apollo gave Orpheus his first lyre. Orpheus' singing and playing were so beautiful that animals and even trees and rocks moved about him in dance.

Orpheus joined the expedition of the Argonauts, saving them from the music of the Sirens by playing his own, more powerful music. on his return, he married Eurydice, who was soon killed by a snakebite. Overcome with grief, Orpheus ventured himself to the land of the dead to attempt to bring Eurydice back to life. With his singing and playing he charmed the ferryman Charon and the dog Cerberus, guardians of the River Styx. His music and grief so moved Hades, king of the underworld, that Orpheus was allowed to take Eurydice with him back to the world of life and light. Hades set one condition, however: upon leaving the land of death, both Orpheus and Eurydice were forbidden to look back. The couple climbed up toward the opening into the land of the living, and Orpheus, seeing the Sun again, turned back to share his delight with Eurydice. In that moment, she disappeared.

Orpheus himself was later killed by the women of Thrace. The motive and manner of his death vary in different accounts, but the earliest known, that of Aeschylus, says that they were Maenads urged by Dionysus to tear him to pieces in a Bacchic orgy because he preferred the worship of the rival god Apollo. His head, still singing, with his lyre, floated to Lesbos, where an oracle of Orpheus was established. The head prophesied until the oracle became more famous than that of Apollo at Delphi, at which time Apollo himself bade the Orphic oracle stop. The dismembered limbs of Orpheus were gathered up and buried by the Muses. His lyre they had placed in the heavens as a constellation.

Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Lady Clare

painting date: 1900
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 76 x 61 cm
location: Private Collection

 

This painting is based on The Lady Clare by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Missal

painting date: 1902
medium: Oil on canvas

Courtesy Renascence Images

This painting is reproduced in colour in the Christmas edition of the Art Journal, 1909.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Psyche Opening the Golden Box

painting date: 1903
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 117 x 74 cm
location: Private Collection

 

Psyche represents the human spirit or soul, and in mythology she was represented as a princess so beautiful that people adored her instead of Venus. To put an end to this sacrilege, Venus sent her son Cupid to make Psyche fall in love with the ugliest creature he could find. but when Cupid saw her he fell in love and forgot his mother's command. They became lovers, though Cupid forbade Psyche ever to look upon him. When at last she did, he fled in fear of what Venus would do to him in revenge. Psyche roamed the earth in search of her lover, facing obstacles thrown in her way by Venus to prove that she was worthy of her son. one of these tasks involved a golden box which she was forbidden from opening. When she did open it, she fell into a deep sleep of death. Eventually, however, Jupiter agreed that the lovers could be united for eternity. The couple's daughter was named Voluptas ("pleasure").

In Greek mythology, Venus is represented by Aphrodite , Cupid by Eros and Jupiter by Zeus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Windflowers

painting date: 1903
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 45 x 31 in
location: Private Collection

 

Waterhouse painted a series of paintings showing girls in windswept landscapes. Another example is the recently rediscovered Boreas, and the currently unlocated March Winds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Danaïdes

painting date: 1904
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 154.3 x 111.1 cm
location: Private Collection
The fifty daughters of Danaüs, King of Argos, were commanded in obedience to a prophecy to murder their husbands on their wedding night; all but one obeyed, and were punished by having to draw water in sieves from a deep well, or by pouring it endlessly into a vessel from which it continually escaped.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Psyche Opening the Door into Cupid's Garden

painting date: 1904
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 109 x 71 cm
location: Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, England

 

Psyche represents the human spirit or soul, and in mythology she was represented as a princess so beautiful that people adored her instead of Venus. To put an end to this sacrilege, Venus sent her son Cupid to make Psyche fall in love with the ugliest creature he could find. but when Cupid saw her he fell in love and forgot his mother's command. They became lovers, though Cupid forbade Psyche ever to look upon him. When at last she did, he fled in fear of what Venus would do to him in revenge. Psyche roamed the earth in search of her lover, facing obstacles thrown in her way by Venus to prove that she was worthy of her son. one of these tasks involved a golden box which she was forbidden from opening. When she did open it, she fell into a deep sleep of death. Eventually, however, Jupiter agreed that the lovers could be united for eternity. The couple's daughter was named Voluptas ("pleasure").

In Greek mythology, Venus is represented by Aphrodite , Cupid by Eros and Jupiter by Zeus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lamia

painting date: 1905
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 57 x 36 in
location: Private Collection

 

In classical mythology, Lamia was a female daemon who devoured children. According to late myths she was a queen of Libya who was beloved by Zeus. When Hera robbed her of her children from this union, Lamia killed every child she could get into her power. She was also known as a fiend who, in the form of a beautiful woman, seduced young men in order to devour them.

It was this latter incarnation of Lamia as a beautiful woman that inspired John Keats to write his poem Lamia, published in 1820. Waterhouse bases his portrayal of Lamia upon Keats' poem:

She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue,
Vermilion-spotted, golden, green, and blue;
Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard,
Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr'd; 
And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed,
Dissolv'd, or brighter shone, or interwreathed
Their lustres with the gloomier tapestries--
So rainbow-sided, touch'd with miseries,
She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf,
Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self.

The Danaïdes
painting date: 1906
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 161.3 x 123.2 cm

Located at Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland. 
The fifty daughters of Danaüs, King of Argos, were commanded in obedience to a prophecy to murder their husbands on their wedding night; all but one obeyed, and were punished by having to draw water in sieves from a deep well, or by pouring it endlessly into a vessel from which it continually escaped.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sketch for Medea
painting date: 1906-07
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 24 x 20.75 in (61 x 53 cm)
location: Private Collection
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
A Scottish Baronial House
painting date: 1907
location: Private Collection

Tentatively attributed to Waterhouse.

Isabella and the Pot of Basil
painting date: 1907
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 41 1/2 x 29 in (105 x 74 cm)
location: Private Collection
 
This painting is based on Isabella, or the Pot of Basil by John Keats.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Jason and Medea
painting date: 1907
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 134 x 107 cm
location: Private Collection

During the adventure of the Argonauts, Jason put ashore at Colchis 

where he met Medea, the daughter of Aeetes, and was bewitched by her beauty. 

Aeetes, the King of Colchis, obstructed Jason's quest for the golden fleece 

by setting him an impossible task, but Medea, being in love with him, helped 

him perform it by magic and escaped with him to Greece. Overcome by wrath,

 Aeetes pursued her and, in an effort to delay his advances, Medea murdered 

her brother, strewing his mutilated limbs in her father's path. on their 

arrival at Iolcos, Medea rejuvenated Jason's father Aeson by boiling him 

with magic herbs but her evil trickery forced them to flee to Corinth, where 

Jason deserted her for Glauce. Medea took revenge by slaughtering their 

children and poisoning her rival.

Phyllis and Demophoön
painting date: 1907
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 135 x 90 cm
 

Greek legends tell how Phyllis, queen of Thrace, fell in love with Demopho?n, 

king of Melos, the son of Theseus and Phaedra, who visits her court en route 

for Athens after the Trojan War, where he had hidden inside the legendary 

Trojan Horse. He left the court, but when he failed to keep his promise to 

return within a month, she committed suicide, whereupon Athena, taking pity 

on her, turned her into an almond tree. Eventually, Demopho?n returned to 

Thrace and, discovering what had happened, embraced the tree, which 

immediately burst into blossom. 

Apollo and Daphne

painting date: 1908
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 145 x 112 cm
location: Private Collection

In Greek mythology, Daphne was the daughter of the river god Peneius. 

She was similar in many ways to the goddess Artemis, in that she was 

also a virgin huntress who happily roamed the wilderness. one day, the 

love god Eros shot a flurry of arrows to taunts from Apollo, the god of 

prophecy. The first of Eros' arrows was a gold-tipped shaft and when it 

struck Apollo it made him fall immediately in love with Daphne. 

The second one, however, had a lead tip and caused Daphne to become even more 

indifferent that she already had been to any lover. Apollo, however, pursued 

Daphne relentlessly until, in desperation, she turned herself into a laurel 

tree on the banks of her father's river. 

Gather Ye Rosebuds while ye may
painting date: 1908
medium: Oil on canvas
size: 24.3 x 18.0 in (61.6 x 45.7 cm)
 

Based on a poem by Robert Herrick (1591-1674) To Virgins to Make Much of Time. 
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
	Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today,
	To-morrow will be dying.
The glorious lamp of heaven, the Sun,
	The higher he's a-getting;
The sooner will his race be run,
	And nearer he's to setting.
That age is best, which is the first,
	When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
	Times still succeed the former.
Then be not coy, but use your time,
	And while ye may, go marry;
For having lost but once your prime,
	You may for ever tarry. 
 
 
 
 
 
The Soul of the Rose
painting date: 1908
medium: Oil on canvas
size: Unknown
location: Private Collection

Also known as 'My Sweet Rose'. 
'And the soul of the rose went into my blood'
(from Tennyson's 'Maud').