La Belle Dame sans Merci/ The beautiful lady without mercy (Banshee), c. 1901
Pencil, watercolour and bodycolour on paper laid on board
103⁄8 x 23 in. (26.4 x 58.5 cm.)
Private collection
The subject is a fairy who seduces a knight with her eyes and singing voice, before lulling him to sleep and abandoning him on an empty hillside. The present watercolour depicts the moment when the fading knight dreams of the fairy he saw across the meadow, and his own initial approach to her on horseback…
Zaidan Gallery 
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