“The Art of Poetry” by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot. Wallraf Museum. Cologne.“Don Quichote” by Adolf Schrödter. Wallraf Museum, Cologne.“Quodlibet” by Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts. 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”
