18.00 USD
This charming image of a maiden in the woods, just at the moment she crosses the magical boundary of a stream, is imbued with a Fae spirit. Surely the famous Belle Epoque performer known as "Doll," could be a wood nymph, or some similar sort of magical being. We love the way in which the magical is suggested in this Reutlinger image, as in so many other images from this time period, without the introduction of a single truly fantastic element. These images make us feel much as we might when reading a fairy tale, as if, at any moment, something truly marvelous will happen.
Nymphs, Naiads, Dryads, and Faerie folk so often cropped up in La Belle Époque imagery, and Leopold Reutlinger of Paris was responsible for bringing many of these “fantaisies” into being. These images reflected a blossoming of a fairy and folklore revival, and a fascination with the western occult tradition as in the case of writers like Dion Fortune, Madame Blavatsky of the Theosophical Society, and others, but on a more basic level, a popular yearning for the magical, for myth made manifest.
Card published by the prolific company, Societé Industrielle de Photographie. Minor wear on this one.
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