Gaston Bussiere kept returning to nymphs at the water's edge for thirty years of his working life, and those figures carry over into counted cross stitch with all their strangeness intact.
He was a French painter and illustrator, born in 1862 and died in 1928, and he belonged to the Symbolists — the painters who went looking for myth and dream rather than the world in front of them. Bathing Nymphs dates from 1897, Water Nymphs from 1927. Three decades apart, the same subject, the same pull toward figures who exist somewhere just outside ordinary life. That persistence tells more about him than any list of dates could. His illustration work put the same mythological cast on the printed page.
Georges Jules Victor Clairin worked in the same Symbolist current.
If it is the painting itself you love rather than the stitching, Gaston Bussiere art prints are easy to find.
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