The Enigma

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A woman and a man are seen from the side looking into each other's eyes with passionate abandon

The enigma.

Artist

Name:: Bellery-Desfontaines, Henri
Dates:: 1867-1909
Country:: France

Illustration

Subject:: People
Technique:: Lithograph
Format:: Landscape (wider)
Source:: Cleveland Museum of Art

Periodical

Title:: L'Estampe moderne, vol. 2 (May 1898-April 1899)
Author:: Collective work
Publisher:: Paris: Imprimerie Champenois, [ca. 1899]

Description:

A woman and a man wearing a laurel wreath are seen from the side looking into each other’s eyes and touching each other’s face with passionate abandon, framed with garlands of daisies and oak leaves and acorns.

The caption reads in the original French: L’énigme.

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