#haidee

This picture contains a wealth of detail faithful to the second canto of Lord Byron's epic satire Don Juan, written between 1819 and 1823. It shows Don Juan in a cave on the coastline of 'one of the wild and smaller Cyclades' islands. The scene depicts the moment when Juan is rescued after having been shipwrecked and brought to the cave by Haidee, the beautiful seventeen year old daughter of the pirate living on the island. As the detail in the foreground of the picture illustrates, Haidee and her companion Zoe have 'made a fire' and prepared 'eggs, fruit, coffee, bread, fish, honey,/With Scio wine' and 'oysters too' to revive Juan. The painting shows 'the languid Juan' as 'he raised his head upon his elbow.' The women have 'dress'd him … like a Turk, Or Greek … with a clean shirt, and very spacious breeches'. Colin has represented a tender scene where the young people are beginning to fall in love and 'in every look (Haidee) saw exprest A world of words'.

Collection: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England

This is a quick silly sketch,,, Stupid way to introduce Haidee, but she's Eurymachus' mother!! This is just a silly scenerio sketch, but I just thought it'd be silly sigh

Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893, British) ~ The Finding of Don Juan by Haidée, 1869-70

I like to imagine this is her during her testifying against Fernand

Haidee: I learned some very valuable lessons from this. Quince: I’m guessing they are all horrible distortions on the lessons you actually should’ve taken away. Haidee: Death isn’t real, and I’m basically God.