Cross Stitch Pattern List

Vigee-Le Brun-Waterhouse

Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Le Brun

Duchesse de Polignac
A portrait of the Duchesse de Polignac, a close friend of Marie Antoinette's and the governess of her children. She is shown dressed simply in a white ruffled dress, black shawl, and a straw hat decked with flowers and a feather plume against a vague background. (Neoclassical, 1787)

Portrait of Countess Golovina
The Countess Varvara Nikolayevna Golovina, draped in a red stole with gold trim. Her dark curly hair is held by a twisted gold band. She is shown across an abstract background with slanting light. (Neoclassical, about 1797)

Simon Vouet

Saint Cecilia in Ecstasy
Saint Cecilia seated at her organ (she is the patron saint of musicians) but looking up at two cherubim who attend her. She is dressed in pink and blue satin and has a silk velvet robe shot with gold and lined with ermine. A crown of roses is on her head. (Baroque, 1626)

John William Waterhouse

The Lady of Shalott
The Lady of Shalott has seen Lancelot and fallen hopelessly in love. She takes a barge and floats downriver from her tower to Camelot but dies before she reaches it.

All her bright hair streaming down
And all the coverlid was cloth of gold
Drawn to her waist, and she herself in white...

And as the boat-head wound along
The willowy hills and fields among,
They heard her singing her last song,
The Lady of Shalott. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

(Pre-Raphaelite, 1888)

Windflowers
A young woman in medieval dress (a white tunic with long full sleeves over a rose-colored undergown) walking barefoot through a meadow on a windy early spring day. The grass is filled with anemones or windflowers in bloom and she has gathered a bouquet which she carries tucked up in the skirt of her tunic. The wind is blowing her long dark hair as she follows the course of a small brook. (Pre-Raphaelite, 1903)

St. Cecilia
St. Cecilia resting in a marble chair in a garden overlooking a harbor with ships. She has been playing a small organ, and has an illuminated hymnal in her lap. Two angels playing the violin and rebec kneel before her.

...in a clear-wall'd city on the sea,
Near gilded organ-pipes ...
slept Saint Cecily;
An angel look'd at her. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

She is the patroness of musicians because she sang to God as she was being martyred. See WAT003-D for a chart of just the angels from this painting.(Pre-Raphaelite, 1895)

St. Cecilia (detail)
Two angels playing the violin and rebec kneeling in a garden overlooking a harbor with ships. Between them is a small organ. This is a detail from the full painting, which we also offer. (Pre-Raphaelite, 1895)

Ophelia
Ophelia, driven mad by her unrequited love for Hamlet, sits on a willow trunk overhanging a lake filled with water lilies, twining flowers into her long, loose hair. She wears a white gown with gold jeweled cuffs and a gold girdle. She has a pile of daisies in her lap. We also offer a pattern showing just her head and arms (see WAT004-D). (Pre-Raphaelite, 1894)

Ophelia (detail)
Ophelia, driven mad by her unrequited love for Hamlet, sits on a willow trunk overhanging a lake filled with water lilies, twining flowers into her long, loose hair. She wears a white gown with gold jeweled cuffs. This detail shows just her head and arms, but we also offer a pattern of the whole picture. (Pre-Raphaelite, 1894)

'I am Half-Sick of Shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott
The Lady of Shalott in a rose-colored gown, seated at her loom, turned slightly away from the mirror which reflects Camelot and a bridal couple.

But in her web she still delights
To weave the mirror's magic sights,
For often thro' the silent nights
A funeral, with plumes and lights
And music, went to Camelot:
Or when the moon was overhead,
Came two young lovers lately wed:
"I am half sick of shadows," said The Lady of Shalott. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson

(Pre-Raphaelite, 1916)

The Enchanted Garden (detail)
In a story from the Decameron, medieval ladies marvel at a walled garden which has magically been brought alive in winter with roses and apple trees

Miranda
Miranda in a blue gown with a red underdress, standing on the shore of the island where she has been stranded with her father for twelve years. She is watching a ship break up in a great storm.

            ... O, I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel
(Who had no doubt some noble creature in her)
Dashed all to pieces! O, the cry did knock
Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished!
-- William Shakespeare, The Tempest

(Pre-Raphaelite, 1916)

Mariana in the South
Mariana, her black hair streaming down, kneels before her mirror on the tiled floor. Her faithless lover's letters are scattered about, and abandoned by him, she bewails her lonely fate.

And on the liquid mirror glow'd
The clear perfection of her face.
"Is this the form," she made her moan,
"That won his praises night and morn?" - Alfred Lord Tennyson

We also offer a pattern of the full painting; see WAT010-D.(Pre-Raphaelite, 1897)

Mariana in the South (detail)
Mariana, her black hair streaming down, gazes mournfully at her reflection in her mirror. Abandoned by her faithless lover, she bewails her lonely fate.

And on the liquid mirror glow'd
The clear perfection of her face.
"Is this the form," she made her moan,
"That won his praises night and morn?" - Alfred Lord Tennyson

This is a detail of the full painting; see WAT010 for a pattern of the complete painting. (Pre-Raphaelite, 1897)

My Sweet Rose
A woman in a turquoise silk kimono rapturously smelling a pink rose climbing on a villa wall. Her auburn hair is dressed with a string of pearls. [Also known as "The Soul of the Rose".] We also offer a pattern of a detail of the full painting; see WAT011-D. (Pre-Raphaelite, 1903)

My Sweet Rose (detail)
A woman in a turquoise silk kimono rapturously smelling a pink rose climbing on a villa wall. Her auburn hair is dressed with a string of pearls. [Also known as "The Soul of the Rose".] This is a detail of the full painting; see WAT011 for a pattern of the complete painting. (Pre-Raphaelite, 1903)

Psyche Entering Cupid's Garden
Psyche, carried by Zephyr to a beautiful garden to await an unknown bridegroom

Tristan and Isolde
Isolde hates Tristan, who killed her fiance Morholt and is now taking her against her will to marry his uncle King Mark. She plans to poison him and herself, but her maid, who wishes them both to live, has secretly replaced the poison with a love potion. They drink and fall passionately in love. (Pre-Raphaelite, 1916)

Circe Invidiosa
Glaucus, half man, half fish, loves Scylla, a beautiful nymph who does not return his love. He asks Circe the Enchantress for help but she falls in love with Glaucus herself. He tells Circe that he will never love anyone but Scylla, so Circe prepares a poisonous potion which she pours into the bay where Scylla is bathing, changing her into a monster writhing in the water. (Pre-Raphaelite, 1892)

Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May
A young woman in a green medieval with jeweled armbands dress holds a silver bowl filled with roses. Her back is to a mirror which reflects the ornate window she is facing.

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying. - Robert Herrick

(Pre-Raphaelite, 1908)

The Crystal Ball
A sorceress in a flowing red gown gazing intently into a small crystal ball. She is standing in a room with an arched window and stone columns and walls. Outside there is a dim grove of trees. The room is furnished with a red-upholstered chair and a round table. The table holds a book of magic spells, a wand, a brass lamp, and a skull. A purple drape forms a partial background for these objects. (Pre-Raphaelite, 1902)

Boreas
A young woman walking through a wind-blown, early spring landscape. She is wearing a blue dress and a gray mantle which she has to hold onto with both hands. She has a daffodil in her hair and there are more in the grass, as well as pink flowers in the trees. The sky is mostly overcast but there is a little sun breaking through on the horizon. (Pre-Raphaelite, 1903)

Destiny
A woman drinking a toast to departing warriors, whose ships are reflected in the mirror behind her. She is wearing a rose-colored dress with a purple girdle. An open book with metal clasps rests on a desk before her, and a globe is reflected in the mirror, as are castle battlements. This picture was donated to the Artists' War Fund (as noted in the lower left) in support of casualties of the Boer War. (Pre-Raphaelite, 1900)

La Belle Dame Sans Merci
A barefoot girl, seated on the ground among daisies, twines her long hair about the neck of a knight in armor. He leans in to kiss her, entranced, but will soon become her next victim.

I met a lady in the meads,
Full beautiful--a faery's child,
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild.
... She took me to her elfin grot... -- John Keats

See WAT020-D for a detail version showing just the girl and knight. (Pre-Raphaelite, 1893)

La Belle Dame Sans Merci (detail)
A barefoot girl, seated on the ground among daisies, twines her long hair about the neck of a knight in armor. He leans in to kiss her, entranced, but will soon become her next victim.

I met a lady in the meads,
Full beautiful--a faery's child,
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild.
... She took me to her elfin grot... -- John Keats

This is a detail from the original painting, which we also offer. See WAT020 for the full painting. (Pre-Raphaelite, 1893)

Miranda
Miranda seated on a large rock close to the sea's edge. She is dressed in a Grecian style and looking pensively out to sea where a small ship can be faintly seen. The sun has set and much of the sky is dark, but some blue, green, and rose colors remain, and the waves lapping at the shore still reflect the last rays of the sun. (Pre-Raphaelite, 1875)

Psyche Opening the Golden Box
Venus, opposed to the marriage of her son Cupid to the beautiful Psyche, sets Psyche many impossible tasks before she will give her consent. One is to collect a box of beauty from the queen of the underworld, Proserpina. With help, Psyche leaves Hades with the filled box, but can't resist opening it to add a bit to her own beauty. (Pre-Raphaelite, 1903)

The Danaides
The Danaides were 50 sisters in Greek mythology who married the 50 sons of their father's twin brother. They all (but one) murdered their husbands on their wedding night. For this, they were doomed in the afterlife to try to fill a tub that leaked. Here a few of them are emptying or about to empty their jugs, while others circle back to refill their jugs. (Pre-Raphaelite, 1903)