So for a Heart-beat She Saw Him
So for a Heart-beat She Saw Him
Date1905
Illustration Citation"The Fox Brush: Retold from the French of Nicolas de Caen," by James Branch Cabell, in Harper's Monthly Magazine, August 1905.
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions24 1/8 × 16 1/8 in. (61.3 × 41 cm)
frame: 30 5/8 x 22 5/8 in. (77.8 x 57.5 cm)
Credit LineGayle and Alene Hoskins Endowment Fund, 1983
Object number1983-6
Label TextAuthor James Branch Cabell invented this fictitious scene from the lives of two 15th-century monarchs. The French Princess Catherine of Valois, living in a convent, hears activity beyond her walled enclosure. She climbs an apple tree and spies a handsome stranger who says he is a minstrel, though he is actually the English King Henry V on a military mission to conquer France. They fall in love but must live through political and dynastic maneuvers before Henry reveals himself and makes her Queen Catherine of England.
Ethel Franklin Betts Bains
1909
