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jazzgyrl
Unregistered User
(3/29/05 4:13 am)
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prince falls in love with painting?
hi everyone,
i'm looking for a fairy tale about a prince who goes into a room he's been forbidden to enter (or draws aside a curtain/veil?) and finds a painting of a princess. he falls in love with the princess and sets off to find her. (there was some reason associated with the identity of the princess why he was forbidden from entering the room, but i can't remember what it was).
i'd really appreciate any help in identifying this tale. thanks!
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Richard
Parks
Registered User
(3/29/05 9:15 am)
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Re: prince falls in love with painting?
There was a story I read years ago that was somewhat similar, except it wasn't a painting, it was a mirror, and the princess was only visible as a reflection. It ended rather sadly as I recall since, in order to free her, the prince took her place in the mirror, and at the end she would come and visit his reflection, that being the only contact they could have. Yet I am totally blanking on the story otherwise; I think it was a work of fiction and not a traditional tale, though it has some elements of "The Golden Branch."
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La
Reine Noire
Registered User
(3/29/05 10:26 am)
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Re: prince falls in love with painting?
That actually sounds like one of the stories from the Thousand and One Nights, though I don't remember which one...
Edited by: La Reine Noire at: 3/29/05 10:27 am
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janepmerrillmsncom
Unregistered User
(3/29/05 10:27 am)
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prince fals in love with painting
Look at Persian and Indian books of tales. Jane
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Crceres
Registered User
(3/29/05 2:34 pm)
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Re: prince fals in love with painting
I believe there's a version of that in one of Andrew Lang's colored
fairy books--not much help, I admit, since there were eight or ten
books. www.classicreader.com/aut...p/aut.151/
This site has all of the books. I'd suggest looking for the story
in the Green Fairy Book, under one of the 'Prince ___ and So-and-so'
titles. There are probably a number of them which involve falling
in love with portraits, considering the popularity of certain themes.
Good luck!
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Random
Registered User
(3/29/05 4:53 pm)
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re: Prince falls in love with a painting
There are probably a lot of fairytales that include this element,
but the only one that I can think of off the top of my head is the
Grimms' "Faithful
John".
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jazzgyrl
Unregistered User
(3/29/05 7:06 pm)
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thanks
thanks everyone for the info/suggestions. i love how helpful people
are at this message board
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Terri
Windling
Registered User
(4/1/05 8:10 am)
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Re: thanks
Here's a story with some similar elements, but not quite the same:
In The White Deer
by Madame D'Aulnoy, a prince falls in love with a painting of a
princess and proposes marriage to her (through an envoy). The princess
is under an evil fairy's curse, however, and must never see the
light of day. She's put into a sealed carriage and sent off to the
prince's kingdom to meet her finance -- but through the evil fairy's
machinations, light enters the carriage and the princess turns into
a white deer, running off into the woods. The evil fairy puts her
own nasty daughter in the princess's place, her face covered with
a veil, and sends her off to marry the prince. The ruse is discovered
before the wedding, however, and the false bride is rejected. The
miserable prince, longing for his true finance, goes off to hunt
in the woods and wounds the white deer. The spell is eventually
broken and all ends happily.
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fenwitch
Unregistered User
(4/4/05 1:36 am)
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deerskin
There is an element to that in "Deerskin" by Robin Mckinnley?
Also speaking of the White Deer, the Thurber fairy tale the "White Deer" is my favorite fairy tale of all time,
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