Musidora: The Bather ‘At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed’

Musidora: The Bather ‘At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed’, is a name given to four nearly identical oil paintings on canvas by English artist William Etty. The paintings illustrate a scene from James Thomson’s 1727 poem Summer in which a young man accidentally sees a young woman bathing naked. The scene was popular with English artists as it was one of...