Autumn Leaves

Lyonesse
Autumn Leaves
Prov.5:22
"His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins."  

Lioness and Cub

by bfrixell

Chess: "Lyonesse" "Autumn Leaves"
 Lyonesse : 
"That sweet land of Lyonesse" a tract of land fabled to stretch between the Land's End and the Scilly Isles, now submerged full "forty fathoms under
water." Arthur came from this mythical country.

                      Faery damsels met in forest wide
                     By knights of Logres, or of Lyones,
                     Lancelot, or Pelleas, or Pellenore.
                                                            MILTON: Paradise Regained, ii, 359.

Paradise Regain'd 

The Second Book

Of Fairy Damsels met in Forest wide
By Knights of Logres, or of Lyones, [ 360 ]
Lancelot, or Pelleas, or Pellenore,      

Septentrion

Lyoness
Seven
Septentrion

27

Tea Party
Arthur, Arthur 
Gen. 7:2 

"Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female."

Night Scene 

Lady at the Tea Table, 1883–85
Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)
Oil on canvas  

Thérèse Dreaming
Balthus (Balthazar Klossowski)  (French, Paris 1908–2001 Rossinière
With closed eyes, Balthus's pubescent model is lost in thought. 
Thérèse Blanchard, who was about twelve or thirteen at the time this picture was made, and her brother Hubert were neighbors of Balthus in Paris. She appears alone, with her cat, or with her brother in a series of eleven paintings done between 1936 and 1939.

Chess: "Lyoness" "27" "Tea Party" "Arthur, Arthur" "Septentrion" "Seven"