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addressed before to my knowledge. Is the man her slave? Picasso found the mask-like head in the shapes of the trees in "Diana and Actaeon." This color also appears in a couple of strokes defining the curves of Diana's buttocks and the shape of the watermelon slice which Picasso saw next to her foot. The second nude from the left in the watercolor fits the curve of the arch in "Diana and Actaeon." Of special note is the little forked touch of blue sky which may be found between the pier and the tree in "Diana and Actaeon" and the green mountains which were accented in the watercolor and reserved for the forked blue and white shape in "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon."

In late 1907 Picasso continued to work from "Diana and Actaeon" with his "Five Women" series, obviously referring to the figures and "bathtub" as well as the arches and trees in "Diana and Actaeon." For example see "Five Women" 1907 (46). The dark reflections in the water helped shape the low boat for Picasso. Manet's "Dead Christ and the Angels" 1864 (9B) was added as a source for these works.

STUDIES AFTER CHASSERIAU

Picasso had previously used Theodore Chasseriau's "Tepidarium" 1850-56, (11A) for his "Acrobat on a Ball" in 1905. Both the March 1907, "Study of Seven Persons, Five Females, a Medical Student and a Sailor" (vertical format) (47) and the "Composition Study of Seven Figures for Les Demoiselles d"Avignon" (49) reveal a brief diversion to the "Tepidarium (11A).

In (47), Picasso compresses the figures in "Tepidarium" to make a more verrtical arrangement and includes the window in the top and the dancing figure in the middle. Picasso draws lines to suggest the tunnel-shaped room. Note the figure arrangements and the upturned head of the seated figure, the figure entering from the left and a corresponding figure on the right side plus the still life in the foreground. Picasso attempted to combine the Chasseriau with the studies from Titian by referencing the hound of Actaeon and a pitcher or pot of flowers which was imagined from a dark shape of the sculptured " bathtub" in "Diana and Actaeon." Actaeon's hound is shown climbing the leg of the figure on the left. A triangle in the foreground of "Tepidarium" was repeated numerous times by Picasso in these sketches. Picasso marked this study with a

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