Collage 460

Volume III, Part Two, Chapter XV. In this scene, Prince Andrei meets the wife of a priest. "... he noticed that behind the door a plump, red-cheeked, and beautiful woman in a pink dress, with a purple silk kerchief on her head, holding a platter and obviously waiting for the commander in chief to come in."

We have a huge box of old prints in the studio, one of which I used here. -- Lola

Lola Baltzell
from page 175-176, Volume 2 of original text
collage, ink
made 4/8/11
Pevear/Volokhonsky translation page 741-742