A First Try-Out for Melisande

I've had cause recently to go through my archive of original illustrations.
That word "archive" makes it sound a lot more neatly organized than it actually is I'm afraid.
I came across this painting which was my first effort at illustrating Melisande.
It appears that I was setting the book back in medieval times, but I am glad that when I really got into the process I updated the costumes a bit.
I still like this one though, and I am surprised that the composition didn't get used in the book somewhere.

A Lost Fragment from Melisande

Cleaning away all the roughs and reference material I was using for Nutcracker, I came across this image.
I did it a long time ago for a New York bibliophile called Barry Klugerman who commissioned it to go with his copy of Melisande.
I think it's as good as any of the pictures in the book itself.