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A group of young women in white dresses dance in the clouded moonlight in a garden surrounded by tall hedges and beside a tall cypress tree and flowers

Farandoleuses: Maidens dancing in the moonlight (date n/k) by Ludovic Alleaume (FRENCH, 1859-1941)

A beautiful young woman with red up elaborately decorated with flowers and in a long floral gown lays partially upright in rocky ground surrounded by rocky outcrop and flowers, her hand is held to her her head and her look is somewhat inscrutable

Echo (1900) by Talbot Hughes (1869 - 1942, British)

Lamia and the Soldier (1905) by John William Waterhouse (1849 - 1917, English)

Enigma (1938) by George Owen Wynne Apperley (1884 - 1960, British)

The Dream (1905) by Joan Brull i Vinyoles (1863 - 1912, Catalan)

Graphite and watercolour depicting the tragic lovers from Dante’s Inferno, Paolo is sitting leaning back with his hands supporting and leaning down into a kiss is Francesca

Paolo and Francesca (ca 1911) by Rose O’Neill (1874 - 1944, American)

Love (circa 1862) by Sir John Everett Millais (1829 - 1896, English)

Penelope is depicted with long brown hair sitting wearing a gauzy long golden orange toned dress, her head tilted to the right side leaning on the back of her right hand while her left hand is holding a spindle and the fabric of her dress. Her gaze is into the distance thinking of her absent husband

Penelope (1869) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882, British)

Le Bal de L’Opera (1886) by Henri Gervex (1852 - 1929, French)

A dark haired young woman sits in her wedding dress, eyes closed and her hands clasped in her lap

Antes de La Boda - Before the Wedding (1882) by Antonio Muñoz y Degrain (1840 - 1924, Spanish)

Two young ladies in white dresses sit together looking into the distance beside a deep pond overlooked by oak and willow trees

Elegant Ladies at rest beside a pond (date n/k) by Louis Émile Adan (1839 - 1937, French)

A young woman in a long white dress sits on a bench by a pond looking contemplative by moonlight

Moonlight Night (1880) by Ivan Kramskoi (1837 - 1887, Russian)

Young Lady looking at the Summer Night from an Open Door of a Veranda (1865) by Jørgen Valentin Sonne (1801 – 1890, Danish)

The Pond at Versailles in Autumn (1916) by Henri Le Sidaner (1862 - 1939, French)

A young couple sit in a pastoral landscape stargazing, the woman entranced by the shooting stars while the man only has eyes for her

Falling Stars (1912) by Franz Stuck (1863 - 1928, German)

A view through the woods of an old wood built mill in the distance, sunlit against the darker woodland

Autumn Glory: The Old Mill (1869) by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836 - 1893, British)

La Soirée Parisienne (1904) by Catherine Engelhart Amyot (1845 - 1926, Danish)

A young woman with long bobbed brown hair stands looking into the unseen distance wearing a long off white gown. The room is painted in similar shade to the dress and panelled with only a brown shaded floor and the walls to be seen.

The Old-Fashioned Gown (1921) by Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851 - 1938, American)

A young woman stands overlooking the water by moonlight in Venice

Waiting up for Him, Venice (1849) by Carlo Bossoli (1815 - 1884, Italian-Swiss)

Two young women in white dresses sit and stand respectively by a seaside wall looking into the distance. There is a round table with a white cloth and evening setting lit by a lamp

Evening in front of the Mediterranean Sea, Côte d’Azur (date n/k) by Marcel Rieder (1862 - 1942, French)

The Arbor (1906) by Gaston de la Touché (1854 - 1913, French)

A young woman in a red Grecian style dress stands beside a tree surrounded by autumnal red tinged foliage. She has both arms held aloft holding a flower crown upon her head

La Ninfa Rossa (The Red Nymph) circa 1904 by Plino Nomellini (1866 - 1943, Italian)

A single riverboat glides gently along a yellow moonlit river, the moon hanging low and visible under the bough of a tree on the bank

Boating by Moonlight (1878) by Arthur Parton (1842 - 1914, American)

Summer Evening in Reykjavík (1905) by Þórarinn Benedikt Þorláksson (February 14, 1867 – July 10, 1924, Icelandic)

A young woman lies on a grassy riverbank at twilight. She is dressed in white, propped in her elbows and gazing at a distant pastoral scene

Serenity (1896) by Jules-Alexis Muenier (1863 - 1942, French)

Figure in the Moonlight (ca. 1880) by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836 - 1893, English)

A garden filled with greenery sits silent with dawn approaching, the sky turning pale blue and the half moon high. There is a stone staircase with imposing finials either side ahead leading up to a manor house where a single lit window can be seen

Dawn (date unknown) by Benjamin Haughton (1865 - 1924, British)

White Lilacs (ca. 1912) by Willard Metcalf (1858 - 1925, American)

A young woman in white Romanesque clothing stands in a garden surrounded by flowers in the moonlight

Night Vigil (date unknown, 1870’s) by John Atkinson. Grimshaw (1836 - 1893, British)

The Haunted House (for Harpers Monthly, 1904) by Howard Pyle (1853 - 1911, American Illustrator, Painter and Author)