Iris and The God of Sleep published April 9,1933 in the American Weekly magazine painted by Edmund Dulac. Halcyone and Ceyx, a King of Thessaly, were still in love, though ten years married. Ceyx went voyaging. His ship was wrecked and everybody drowned. Anxious Halcyone was a widow and didn’t know it. The Goddess Juno was fond of her, yet too tender-hearted to break the sad news. So she sent Iris, sprite of the rainbow, to Somnus, the God of sleep, to ask him to send a dream to Halcyone to tell borrowed Mercury’s winged anklet and rod, took her rainbow and flew to the cave where ...
In 1923, “Edmund Dulac, the Distinguished English Artist,” as he was billed on the covers, was contracted by the Hearst organization to paint watercolors for The American Weekly Sunday magazine. The contract lasted 30 years and Dulac painted 107 watercolors for thirteen different series until his last Arabian Nights in 1951.
Size: 9539px × 13370px
Photo credit: © Albert Seligman / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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