#draperies

Collection: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, United States

The painting depicts a scene where Dorothy (Dorotea) is surprised in the bath it is a famous episode from Part One of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. While hiding in the Sierra Morena mountains, Dorotea is bathing in a stream when the priest, the barber, and Cardenio happen upon her.

Collection: Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium

Catherine Noël Grand (née Worlée; 21 November 1761– 10 December 1834) was a French courtesan and noblewoman. She was the daughter of a colonial officer in French India, who became the mistress and later the wife of French diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, the first Prime Minister of France. From 1806 until her death she was Catherine Noël de Talleyrand-Périgord.

Collection: Rijksmuseum, The Hague, Netherlands

Gaius Furius Chresimus, or Cresimus, or Cressinus, was a 2nd-century BC Greek farmer and freedman in the Roman Republic mentioned in a fragment of the lost history of Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi, preserved in Pliny's Natural History. Piso tells that Furius Chresimus was acquitted of accusations of witchcraft during the aedileship of Spurius Postumius Albinus, dated 191 BC. The trial took place in a period of reaction against the growing influence of Hellenism at Rome, notably led by Albinus. Both Piso and Pliny told the story of the trial for its moralizing aspect.

Collection: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, United States

Working on my biggest project so far - two fillet crochet curtains with cats playing with moon phases, also I'm thinking of adding fringes. Fingers crossed I'll be able to share the results with you by the end of April.