L’Enigme by Gustave Doré
April 24, 2008
What a painting. Monochrome gloom, lifeless soldiers, smoke filled skies and in the middle a winged figure implores an expressionless sphinx. Painted in by Gustave Doré in 1871 after yet more Franco-Prussian warfare the colorless and cryptic embrace would appear to be unconvincing to a weary sphinx.
Tags: Gustave Doré, l'enigme, Paris
