Why it matters
An armoured knight is enchanted by a beautiful fairy who dooms her lovers to loneliness. Waterhouse based it on John Keats's poem La Belle Dame sans Merci.
Did you know?
- It was painted in 1893.
- Keats's poem has twelve stanzas.
- It is in the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt.
Based on the Dutch Wikipedia article La Belle Dame sans Merci (Waterhouse) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
