Swooning  

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Psyche (c.1786) by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, a swooning woman
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Psyche (c.1786) by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, a swooning woman

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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
  1. to faint, to lose consciousness
  2. to be overwhelmed by emotion (especially infatuation)

Ariadne (1804) by Jean-Baptiste Greuze depicts a swooning woman, exemplary of passion in reverie. The swooning woman was first typified in Titian's Magdalenes.

Other swooning women include the depictions of Heloise as in Edmund Blair Leighton's Abaelard and his Pupil Heloise.

There are numerous paintings of women reading in passionate reverie.

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