Truths, Once Seen, Can No Longer Be Denied

Night at the Rodos island (1850) by Ivan Aivazovsky

Full Bodied Asspirations

Gentleman choice... Constanza Nisi

The painting in the image is a work by French artist Hugues Merle, a painter known for his sentimental and moral scenes.

Hugues Merle was born in 1822 and died in 1881. He studied painting with Léon Cogniet and began exhibiting at the Salon (Paris) in 1847.

Merle was compared to William-Adolphe Bouguereau and became a considerable rival in terms of subject matter and treatment. He was appointed Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1866.

Evening Silence (c. 1900)

Wilhelm Kotarbiński (1848 - 1921)

After "The Nymph Echo" by Paul Lemoyne, 1821. Louvre, Paris

Model: Alise

David Hettinger