If He'd Been the Subject of a Nineteenth-Century Painting . . .

. . . Prince Valiant would have looked a lot like Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin’s “Male Nude, Seen From Behind,” don’t you think?

Of course, it’s the distinctive hair-cut that makes me think this. . . . That and the well-toned physique.


See also the previous posts:
• In All Ways Different
• Always In Demand
• No Privacy
• Captured, Stripped, and Bound
• A First for Prince Valiant


Image 1: Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (1809-1864), “Male Nude, Seen From Behind.”
Image 2: Hal Foster (from page 500, September 8, 1946).