More Pandora

After my Pandora work, I started thinking about representations of Pandora, which led me to these. All are late-nineteeth/early-twentieth century works by British artists.

Henry Meynell Rheam, Study for Pandora, 1902

I find it interesting that in this painting, Pandora looks inevitably drawn to the jar, while in the Rosetti (below), she is a touch sad, but calm and resigned--the whole painting has a very fateful feel to me.

Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Pandora, 1879

John William Waterhouse, Pandora, 1896

Usually, I find Waterhouse's work overripe (think La Belle Dame Sans Merci, Apollo and Daphne), but I find this painting, with its whisper of escape, with Pandora's bare feet and bare shoulder, with her almost hunted-yet-still-drawn look perfect.

Henriette Rae, Pandora, 1894

This so very early twentieth century fairy painting that while it may not be exactly suited to Greek myth, I find it haunting, arresting even. Perhaps it's the photorealism of the model's face--I'm not sure. But I'm drawn to the picture all the same.