'The Haunted Wood'

 

"There is a border-land between the grave and the gay, the tragic and the comic, as between the sublime and ridiculous, in which Mr. Pettie is as much at home as when he confines himself to the domain of the more purely dramatic. He generally , however , shows a relish for the sensational, and the picture we engrave  from the Winter Exhibition at the French Gallery is a happy and amusing example of somewhat special faculty, as well as a good specimen of the artist's clever  and facile execution. No painter conceives a subject like  this better than Mr. Pettie.' 

 

The Illustrated London News Jan 20, 1872

Comments

[the errant aesthete]

Magical!

[Mona]

So true, the borderland between comic and tragic! Lovely post and have a great day! (I found you from the lovely uptowndowntown)

[Madeleine Gallay]

Too beautiful, yet again. These posts are something like a caught moment.