I'm working on a longer post and don't have time to finish it tonight, so I thought I'd just share this beautiful image. It's Gustave Moreau's A Esfinge Vencedora. (Click on the image to enlarge it.) The sphinx is rather winsome--completely out of keeping with the myth. I like that, and I love the surprise of white skin against the gloomy background.
"Winsome" is right. It's got a rather puppyish aspect. Like it wants a good scratch behind the ears ora game of fetch. At any moment, it might start licking the woman's face.
ReplyDeleteThat's funny, jm. What really is going on anyway? I don't know anything in the sphinx myth that it might represent.
ReplyDeleteI think ol' Gustave is going his own way with this one.
ReplyDeleteI love dropping by to see what's here. Thanks, as usual.
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