2-696-861 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Vale of Rest', 1858-1859, (c1902). After a painting in the Tate Gallery, London. Subtitled, 'Where the weary find repose', a quote from Mendelssohn's part-song Ruhetal from Sechs Lieder; scene depicting two nuns in a graveyard, one digging a grave. Millais apparently had the idea for the picture while on honeymoon. From The Nation's Pictures. A selection from the finest modern paintings in the public picture galleries of Great Britain, reproduced in colour. [Cassell and Company Ltd, London, c1902]