Midsummer Eve (painting)

Midsummer Eve
ArtistEdward Robert Hughes
Yearc. 1908
MediumWatercolour with gouache
Dimensions114.3 cm × 76.2 cm (45.0 in × 30.0 in)

Midsummer Eve is a 1908 watercolour painting by Edward Robert Hughes. The painting depicts a young woman in a woodland setting surrounded by a ring of fairies who are holding aloft glowing objects. Hughes may have drawn inspiration from William Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream and Rudyard Kipling's fantasy book Puck of Pook's Hill.

Midsummer Eve was first exhibited at the Royal Watercolour Society and is considered one of the most iconic fairy images, a popular Victorian era genre. It is part of a private collection and has been exhibited at the Frick Collection and the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.

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