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The Beguiling of Merlin, Edward Burne-Jones, 1874, Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, Merseyside.

© Photo Josse/Leemage from Dangerous Women: The Perils of Muses and Femmes Fatales by Laure Adler and Élisa Lécosse (Paris: Flammarion, 2010).