sweet scents
delightfully refreshing
her skin
wrapped
in silk
and mountains
and lakes
Fragments of Lawren Harris's Mountains and Lake (1929), Claude Monet's Woman with a Parasol, Facing Right (1886), and advertisements from The Dominion Illustrated (1889).
The story
Three printed things meet here.
The mountains and lake are from Lawren Harris's Mountains and Lake (1929). Harris (1885–1970) was a founding member of the Group of Seven, and by the end of the 1920s he had turned from Ontario woods to the clean-edged mountains and ice for which he is best known.
The woman is from Claude Monet's Woman with a Parasol, Facing Right (1886), now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. Monet's model was his stepdaughter, Suzanne Hoschedé. The picture repeats the pose and the low, backlit viewpoint of an earlier painting of his first wife, Camille, who had died in 1879, and it marked his return to the figure after years of painting almost none.
Around them run advertisements from The Dominion Illustrated of 1889.