22 May
Born in 1814 – Amalia Lindegren, Swedish painter.
Above: Sunday Evening in a Farmhouse in Dalarna, 1860
Also, born in 1808, French romantic poet Gérard de Nerval:
It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.


