Marianne Stokes [Austrian born, British Pre-Raphaelite painter, 1855-1927] This painting is of the 1893 Symbolist play "Pelléas and Mélisande" by Maurice Maeterlinck. In this scene Melisande' is by a stream in the woods where she has lost her crown in the water, but does not wish to retrieve it; there she is discovered by her future husband Golaud. Biography and other paintings: www.artmagick.com/pictures/artist.aspx?artist=marianne-st... More on the play: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pell%C3%A9as_and_M%C3%A9lisande Museum Wallraf-Richartz. Köln _______ Slight touch up by plumleaves