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Maureen snaps Aloysius out of it.

Maureen snaps at, then consoles, Aloysius

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The theme of a woman consoling a man is a common one in classical painting. Here is an appealing example of one that I found recently.

Francis Stephne Cary (1808-1880), Consolation (1842)

Cary wasn’t known to me before, but he’s been of a kind of significance as a teacher of artists whose work has featured at Erotic Mad Science, including both John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

This version of the image found here, with thanks to British Paintings for additional biographical detail on Cary.