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Alfredo Codallo - La Diablesse
1950 Watercolour
Signed: "Alf Codallo '50"
Dimensions: without frame 17 x 26", with frame 29 x 38"
La Diablesse (Lajables), the Devil Woman, roams at night. She has eyes like burning coals and a face resembling that of a corpse, but hides it under a beautiful wide-brimmed hat.
She is dressed exquisitely in a blouse with puffy sleeves and long, petticoated, skirts. She has one cloven foot, which she tries to hide under her long skirts.
She turns up at village dances, where she is immediately disliked by the women present, but she utterly charms the men and then asks one of them to take her home. He follows her, totally under her spell.
She leads him deep into the woods and then suddenly she disappears. Unable to find his way home, the poor fellow stumbles around in the dark wood until he either falls into a ravine or a river to his death or gets attacked by wild hogs.In this painting by Alfred Codallo you can see the enamoured gentleman coming up the path to the lower right of the tree, in search for the beautiful woman he met earlier.
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