I know it's true,
That visions are seldom all they seem;
But if I know you, I know what you'll do,
You'll love me at once, the way you did once upon a dream.
Jennifer Connelly in Étoile (Peter del Monte - 1989)
The red room at the Chinese Pavilion of the Drottningholm Palace
Elisabet Platel, Isabelle Guerin and Laurent Hilaire in La Bayadere
Photo © Jacques Moatti and Christian Lieber
Miss Anne Ryan by John Everett Millais, date unknown
Crenaia, the nymph of the Dargle by Frederic Lord Leighton, 1880.
The Passing of Elaine by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, 1910-1911
Red Rose and White by Frederick Sandys, 1867.
The Farmer’s Daughter by John Everett Millais, circa 1863
A Young Beauty by Edward Robert Hughes, 1875
Unprofessional Beauty by Valentine Cameron Prinsep, 1885