Tag: Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts

Four Paintings for Writers in Cologne’s Wallraf Museum

painting
“The Art of Poetry” by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot. Wallraf Museum. Cologne.
painting of reading man in a big green chair
“Don Quichote” by Adolf Schrödter. Wallraf Museum, Cologne.
painting of letters sealed with red wax
“Quodlibet” by Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts. Wallraf Museum, Cologne.

Painting of Snowwhite asleep in a glass case in the forest. Wallraf Museum, Cologne.
“Schneewittchen” [Snow White] by Marianne Stokes. Wallraf Museum, Cologne.
The magical inscription on this painting reads: “We cannot lay her in the dark earth,” said the dwarfs and so they had a transparent glass coffin made so that she could be seen from every side laid her in it and wrote on it her name and that she was a kings daughter. Then they carried the coffin into the wood and some of them always watched her and the birds also came and bewailed Snowdrop. First an owl. Then a raven and lastli a dove. So Snowdrop lay a long long time in her coffin looking as though she were asleep. –GRIMM”

The “lastli” pleases me greatli.