Rossette and Prince Charmant by Virginia Sterrett Poster

Virginia Francis Sterrett was commissioned to illustrate a French fairy tale book called "Old French Fairy Tales" (1920) when she was only nineteen. A short time later she came down with Tuberculosis. She also illustrated for "Tanglewood Tales" and "Arabian Nights" before passing away in 1928. This particular illustration is for the tale called "The Princess Rossette". "They walked side by side during the rest of the evening, and talked merrily and happily over their plans for the future, if the fairy Puissante would permit them to unite the smooth current of their lives. The diamonds of Rosette sparkled with such brilliancy that the alleys where they walked and the little groves where they seated themselves, seemed illuminated by a thousand stars."