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Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed' is a name given to four nearly identical oil paintings on canvas by English artist William Etty. The paintings illustrate a scene from James Thomson's 1727 poem Summer in which a young man accidentally sees a young woman bathing naked, and is torn between his desire to look and his obligation to look away. The scene was popular with English artists as it was one of the few legitimate pretexts to paint nudes at a time when the display and distribution of nude imagery was suppressed. Other than minor differences in the background landscape, the four paintings are identical in composition. Two versions are in public collections, one in Tate Britain and one in the Manchester Art Gallery. Musidora was well received when first exhibited in 1843, and was considered one of the finest works by an English artist. Etty died in 1849 and his work went out of fashion. His Musidora probably influenced The Knight Errant by John Everett Millais.

Iridescent (and anyone else interested): thoughts and edits are welcome. There's no rush; this hasn't been scheduled at TFA yet. This batch finishes up blurbs for FACs promoted in 2017. - Dank (push to talk) 05:07, 11 January 2020 (UTC)