Edmund Dulac - The Snow Queen

The Snow Queen by Edmund Dulac (French, 1882-1953). Created in 1910. Gouache, pen and ink; 17 x 12". Illustration for the chapter "Second Story: A Little Boy and a Little Girl" from "The Snow Queen" published in Stories from Hans Andersen with illustrations by Edmund Dulac (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1911), page 11. The full published caption reads "Many a Winter's night she flies through the streets and peeps in at the windows and then the ice freezes on the panes into wonderful patterns like flowers."