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La Belle Dame sans Merci

1893

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The story

Keats's ballad of 1819: a knight-at-arms meets a lady in the meads, 'full beautiful', who sings to him, takes him to her elfin grot and lulls him asleep; he wakes alone on the cold hill side.

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Object details

Title: La Belle Dame sans Merci
Artist: John William Waterhouse
Date: 1893
Culture: British
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object type: Paintings
Collection: Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.0883
Original image: 2216 × 3000 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

John William Waterhouse. La Belle Dame sans Merci. 1893. Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt. Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0883/