In the summer of 2009, when my daughter was sixteen years old, she made a particular photograph inside the Louvre in Paris — a photograph that I bumped across this morning in a catalog of her Europe and Africa travel photos I preserve for her in my Lightroom archives. Here it is:
photo by Ivi Anna Hathaway
Ivi’s photograph was of Henry Fuseli’s (aka Johann Heinrich Füssli) 1784 painting of “The Sleepwalking Lady Macbeth”, inspired by Shakespeare’s tragedy. Here’s an image of that original painting, probably still viewable at the Louvre.
