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Plate 18 from Gustave Flaubert's The Temptation of St. Anthony, third series; lithograph [illustration], printed in black. "Redon's own predilection for fantasy and the macabre drew him naturally into the orbit of Delacroix, Baudelaire, and...
"As early as 1876, in the ornate, somewhat epicene sensuality of The Apparition, Moreau summarized many of the concepts that linked the melancholy beauty of the Pre-Raphaelites with his own native poetic tradition epitomized by Baudelaire's...
"Where Do We Come From? offers a flowing composition divided into three main figure groupings set in a jungle clearing with the sea in the background. In the center a Polynesian Eve, reminiscent of Botticelli's Giuliano de' Medici in the...
“Moreau has rendered Salome as an enchantress, the archetypal femme fatale who seduces Herod into performing her will. Moreau was very careful to avoid endowing the figure of Herod with any magisterial dignity but rather shows him as an old man,...
Caption information: Liegender Halbakt nach rechts [Reclining half-nude facing right] / um 1907 [c. 1907] / blauer und roter Farbstift [blue and red crayon; color pencil] [Note: “farbstift” translates as “color pencil” (Amer.); “crayon”...
Caption information: Liegender Halbakt nach rechts mit aufgestelltem rechten Bein [Reclining half-nude (seen from the right) with the right leg raised (drawn up)] / um 1914 [c. 1914] / roter Farbstift [red crayon; color pencil] [Note:...
Caption information: Liegende Frau nach rechts, mit Ruschengewand [Reclining woman seen from the right, with garment made of ruffles]. (alternately, “with ruffles” or “a ruffled garment”)/ Bleistift auf braunlichem Papier [pencil on...
Caption information: Liegender Frauenakt [Reclining female nude]/ um 1912 [c. 1912] / Bleistift, weiss gehoht [pencil with white chalk (white highlight; heightened with white)] / sig.: u. r. Gustav Klimt [signature (signed): Lower right: Gustav...
Caption information: Kniender weiblicher Akt in gekauerter Stellung [Kneeling female nude in crouching position] / um 1917 [c. 1917]/ Studie zu “Leda” [Study of “Leda”] / Bleistift [pencil] / u. r.: Nachlassstempel [lower right: estate...
Caption information: Bildnis einer Dame mit entblosstem Oberkorper [Portrait of a Lady with bare torso (upper part of the body)] / 1907/08 / Bleistift, blauer und roter Farbstift [pencil, blue and red crayon/color pencil] [Note: “farbstift”...
Caption information: Zwei liegende Frauen in Umarmung [Two women lying in an embrace] / um 1907 [c. 1907] / roter Farbstift [red crayon/color pencil] [Note: “farbstift” translates as “color pencil” (Amer.); “crayon” or “color...
Caption information: Schwangere Frau nach links [Pregnant woman facing left (seen from the left)] / um 1908 [c. 1908] / Bleistift, roter und blauer Farbstift [pencil, red and blue crayon/color pencil] [Note: “farbstift” translates as “color...