Swan Lake by Miloslava Vrbova, mid 20th Century.  Oil on Canvas.  This artist is famous for her impressionistic paintings of beautiful ballerinas.
Provenance:  Property of a European Estate
* Story of Swan Lake:  There is a reason Swan Lake has remained the world's most beloved classical ballet for more than a century.  It is a beautiful fairytale telling the story of a young Prince Siegfried who falls in love with Princess Odette.  Odette and her companions transform into swans under the spell cast by evil sorcerer Baron von Rothbart.  Their days are spent gracefully gliding on a lake only to return to their human form at night.  The only thing that can break the spell is true love and Rothbart will do anything in his power to stop it.
Reference:  Miloslava Vrbova was born in 1909 Schinkau/Bohemia and died in 1991 in Germany.  She was a traditionalist impressionistic painter.  Studied at the Academy in Prague under Svabinsky and at the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Paris.