by Sophie Gengembre Anderson (1823–1903)
She acts like summer and walks like rain
Reminds me that there's a time to change
Since the return from her stay on the moon
She listens like spring and she talks like June.
― Train, Train: Drops of Jupiter
I become ocean, mercury, silver
shimmers, fairy tales, fascinated.
― Helene Cardona, Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue
Sources:
[1] Original image from Wikimedia
[2] The Real Victorian's enhanced version of the painting (seen above),
downloadable as a 10" x 8" @ 300 ppi JPEG
Digitally enhanced reproductions of public domain paintings are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.