3597242 The Lorelei, 1904 (oil on canvas) by Hassam, Childe Frederick (1859-1935); 63.8x53.5 cm; Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, USA; (add.info.: Hassam named this study of a nude model posed on a cliff after the siren in the German poet Heinrich Heine\'s "Die Lorelei" (1827). In the poem, the Lorelei, a water spirit dwelling in the treacherous rocks along the Rhine lures ships to their destruction with her tantalizing singing: \'Night falls as I linger, dreaming, And calmly flows the Rhine; The Peaks of the mountains gleaming In the golden sunset shine. A wondrous lovely maiden Sits high in glory there; Her robe with gems is laden, And she combs out her golden hair\'. ).