Arthur Hughes reimagines Keats’s haunting ballad La Belle Dame sans Merci in this lush, emotionally fraught scene. A knight in partial armor gazes upward, transfixed by the ethereal woman draped across his steed. Her long auburn hair and diaphanous gown shimmer in the fading light, while the background darkens into spectral figures—echoes of past victims lured by her fatal beauty. The setting is wild and overgrown, thick with flowers and mythic undertones. Hughes, in true Pre-Raphaelite form, entwines poetic melancholy with medieval romance, transforming literary allegory into a vivid vision of enchantment and ruin.