“This highly-impressionistic sketch is a study of the female model in Waterhouse’s painting of 1893 entitled A Naiad (private collection). It anticipates his masterpiece of three years later Hylas and the Nymphs (1896, Manchester City Gallery), which depicts Hylas, a companion of Hercules, who becomes bewitched by a group of mesmerisingly beautiful water-nymphs who lure him into a pool to his death. In A Naiad, however, the nymph appears to be far more innocent and investigative as she climbs out of a woodland stream, with water-lily leaves woven into her hair, entranced by the sleeping figure of a young man.”

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