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Nausicaa in paintings

Nigel Bruce

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Nausicaa in paintings
Frederick Leighton: “Nausicaa” (circa 1878), cropped.

Pieter Lastman's Odysseus and Nausicaa (1619) is not quite how I imagined her.

Alte Pinakothek, Munich

This is by French caricaturist and painter Jean Veber: Ulysses and Nausicaa (1888).

Valentin Serov's version (1910) reminds me of a Fellini movie...

Serov-Nausicaa-Odysseus
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Finally, this is French painter Lucien Simon's Nausicaa (1915).

Petit Palais, Paris