La belle dame sans merci - 1893Location: Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt
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This painting is based on John Keats's poem "La belle dame sans merci".
The verses that concretly inspire the painting are:
She took me to her elfin grot,
And there she gaz'd and sighed deep,
And there I shut her wild sad eyes -
So kiss'd to sleep.