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Hermia and Lysander

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Original – Hermia and Lysander from A Midsummer Night's Dream, painted by John Simmons in 1870. The play opens with Hermia, who is in love with Lysander, refusing to submit to her father's demand that she wed Demetrius.

Reason: A take on "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by a less known artist. The digitization looks adequate for a 89×74 cm painting.
Articles in which this image appears: A Midsummer Night's Dream, John Simmons (painter, born 1823)
FP category for this image: ~~Artwork/Paintings~~ Artwork/Literary illustrations
Creator: John Simmons

Support as nominator – Brandmeister^talk 16:58, 28 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - lovely. Very fine, sensitive work. ^{(hope no technicality will came up...)} Though, category should be illustrations, since it is watercolor heightened with gouache. Hafspajen (talk) 17:45, 28 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Very nice. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:45, 28 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Beautiful. CorinneSD (talk) 01:05, 29 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - The original painting appears to be of high artistic merit, and this electronic version of high quality & accuracy/ fidelity to the original. (I am especially fond of the crazed rabbit in the lower right corner— striking!) KDS4444^Talk 06:43, 29 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Another romantic hero falls victim to the wiles of the Eternal feminine. Sca (talk) 15:20, 29 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

^{How's your Shakespeare? It's the other way round... Hermia is chasing him in the forest. Eh, actually it is a bit complicated.}

Hafspajen (talk) 17:57, 29 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it always is. But ... he's falling for her, right? Sca (talk) 18:09, 29 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Eh, he starts chasing Hermias friend instead, shockingly. Hafspajen (talk) 19:26, 29 November 2014 (UTC) [reply]

What's shocking? Boys will be boys. Sca (talk) 20:57, 29 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support – The painting sold for £42,470 in 2012, apparently a record for Simmons work; what a fab painting, I'm surprised it didn't achieve a higher price! SagaciousPhil - Chat 16:27, 29 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support – watercolour with gouache is illustration? Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 18:40, 29 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Xanty, the references say that this is illustration, in this case, read his article. B^{ut generally - yes - even if I jumped over a couple of line of thought's - because you paint with oil on canvas - or some prepared surface - tree is OK, sometimes metal. Canvases can be really big, usually called painting though. Tempera mixed with egg is often will be called painting. Watercolour is (Swedish akvarell) is made on wet paper with watercolour - (or sometimes wet paper with gouache) - that will be an aquarelle - a watercolor. Often smaller size too, big sheets of watered paper doesn't manage well, goes into pieces. But might be that in English it is called painting too. Either way, it is rarely that an artist paint illustrations. They generally use paper and watercolour.}
AHA: article: Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (Commonwealth and Ireland), also aquarelle from French, is a painting method in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-soluble vehicle. The term "watercolor" refers to both the medium and the resulting artwork. Hafspajen (talk) 19:13, 29 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, right- it was just that I've come across watercolours with body colour (gouache) which are definitely paintings, e.g. William Henry Hunt (painter) Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 19:54, 29 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well, now we got an other complication - this is watercolor heightened with gouache - meaning - wet paint - let it float and dry and than go over with gouache, when paper is dry. On wet paper the colours float, and are misty - like the background, - on dry paper with gouache (often you use gouache on dry paper rather than wet) you make precise, fine lines - (that is no way you can do that with watercolors), like - - like her bracelet, rings, the pearls in the fairy's hair and the water-drops, for example. It is very smartly done. Hafspajen (talk) 20:11, 29 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support beautiful. ///EuroCarGT 05:45, 30 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Now I can count the fairies here..The herald 07:03, 30 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

How many? Hafspajen (talk) 12:34, 30 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sometimes they are 25 and sometimes 27. Hafspajen (talk) 02:58, 2 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Fairy nuff. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 21:13, 2 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well..26..midway Hafs..The herald 11:26, 3 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support Yann (talk) 15:59, 3 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Simmons-Hermia and Lysander. A Midsummer Night's Dream.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:59, 8 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]