Florizel and Perdita, Albert Pinkham Ryder, by 1887
Albert Pinkham Ryder, portraitAlbert Pinkham RyderÉtats-Unis, 1847–1917

Florizel and Perdita

by 1887 · Painting · 31.1 × 18.4 cm

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, États-Unis

SalleLuce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor, 6B

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Albert Pinkham Ryder painted several images based on plays by William Shakespeare. His favorite play was The Winter’s Tale, and this small image shows the characters Prince Florizel and the shepherd girl Perdita, who he was forbidden to marry. They discovered that Perdita was actually the banished daughter of a king, however, and the lovers were reunited. Ryder never married and constantly mourned the absence of love in his life. (Broun, Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1989) He may have been comparing himself to Prince Florizel and hoping that he, too, would fall in love with a “princess.”

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1929.6.94

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