People in Paintings

Sometimes I like to look at old paintings and make up stories about the people in them. (i.e. those silly old weekly character posts.) This one I didn't even have to think - it just was there.

This little girl is in a huge mansion - just look at that expanse of scarlet carpet! She looks lonely - her parents are away all the time, they send her fancy toys, pretty trinkets, even a dog. But she wants something more, see her dress? It reflects that she doesn't care about any of those exotic knick-knacks. Her only comfort in the ornately giant house is the little dog.

Now I've put myself in a sad mood...

...but wierd hats never fail to cheer me up. Grand Lady has gone for a stroll in the woods when she comes upon a very strange child, with huge wings, a battered hat with a scraggly feather, and a box of trinkets hanging from it's neck. One has to wonder where this oddity of a midget came from!

Girl on a Red Carpet, Felice Casorati, 1912.
Hilda Fairbairn, Love the Pedlar, unknown date but early 1900s. Funny, I thought the painter was named Hilda Fairbairn Love, and the painting, The Pedlar.