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
June 24, 2009 at 2:27 pm
I saw this painting live at an exposition in my country. I was amazed… The best in the whole exposition.
I found out that this was an artist that made a lot of engravings, and since them i’ve been collecting all his first editions that i could find.
The engravings are stunning! I have some on my blog:
http://antiqbooks2000.blogspot.com/search/label/Gustave%20Dore
I hope you like them.