Afternoon of a Faun

Music: Debussy, "Syrinx" and from the "Afternoon of a Faun"

During the Victorian era there was an intense interest in fairy-themed art which revived for a while in 1917 after the publication of the Cottingley Fairies photographs. In this video fairies appear in the paintings of:

Daniel Maclise

Nils Blommer

Johann Heinrich Fuessli

Robert Alexander Hillingford

Sir Joseph Noel Paton

Theodor Kittilsen

Richard Dadd

Luis Ricardo Falero

Hans Zatzka

John Anster Fitzgerald

John Georg Naish