User:Belle

I just read some of Belle's talk page, and have realized that she has a particular sort of humor that has gone straight over my head. My name is Annabelle but everybody calls me Belle.

I will copy-edit for food and pick holes in your prose for kicks.

Any threats I make during the course of editing to punch you or kiss you should not be taken as binding.

GAs I've had something to do with
P. S. Krøyer's paintings of Marie (with )  Peder Severin Krøyer painted various portraits of his wife, Marie Krøyer, a fellow Danish artist who was said to be one of the most beautiful women in Copenhagen. Norwegian-born Peder fell in love with her when they met in Paris in 1889 and the couple settled in Skagen on the northern tip of Jutland in 1891, joining the group of artists known as the Skagen Painters. The first few years of their marriage were reasonably happy but by the early 1900s they spent ever more time apart, and in 1902 Marie began an affair with the Swedish composer Hugo Alfvén, with whom she became pregnant in 1905. Thereafter she spent most of her time with Alfvén in Sweden, marrying him in 1912, three years after Krøyer had died in Skagen.

Krøyer's paintings of Marie between 1888 and 1906 show some of their most enjoyable times but also hint at the marital tension that increased as time went by. Among the most notable paintings of her are Summer Evening at Skagen. The Artist's Wife and Dog by the Shore (1892), Roses (1893), and Summer Evening at Skagen Beach – The Artist and his Wife (1899). Also of note are the depictions of Marie in Ravello in 1890; the portrait for the frieze in the dining room at Skagen's Brøndums Hotel; Chez Moi, a series of watercolours of Marie and the couple's daughter Vibeke in the family homes in Copenhagen and Skagen; and Midsummer Eve Bonfire on Skagen Beach, his last painting of her in which she is shown captured in the firelight with Alfvén.

DYKs (some written; some nominated)

 * ... that in 1860 the Compagnie Impériale des Voitures in Paris operated 3830 fiacres, owned 8000 horses, and carried over 10 million passengers?
 * ... that Degas said that if "you looked through a keyhole" you might see scenes like his After the Bath, Woman drying herself (pictured)?
 * ... that the memorial to members of the United Kingdom's Houses of Parliament killed in the First World War was damaged by bombing in the Second World War?
 * ... that Roses by P. S. Krøyer was anonymously donated to the Skagens Museum in 2008 after almost 100 years in private ownership?
 * ... that Johannes Jørgensen said the dog in P. S. Krøyer's Summer Evening at Skagen. The Artist's Wife and Dog by the Shore was "an ugly and unpleasant animal to behold"?'
 * ... that among P. S. Krøyer's paintings of his wife Marie is a double self-portrait in which they painted each other?
 * ... that the woman in Vilhelm Hammershøi's Interior with Young Woman Seen from the Back is the painter's wife, whom he often painted facing away from the viewer?
 * ... that Anna Ancher thought that a little bit of symbolism such as in her painting Harvesters "did no harm"?