 | The Mermaid's Lovers depict women underwater with sea life. Schmucker wrote Japanese Globe Fish on the back of the painting at left. The paintings in this set are similar to The Water Birds and The Land Birds, and are some of the most beautiful images Schmucker submitted to the Detroit Publishing Company, circa 1905-06. The fish and crustacea in the foreground of these paintings are very realistic and lifelike. The Pre-Raphaelites emphasized precise, almost photographic representation of nature and objects, particularly those in the immediate foreground that has traditionally been left blurred, or in the shade. The women in The Mermaid's Lovers wear hair ornaments from the sea, yet another influence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. |
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