Sappho, Alphonse Osbert, 1888 |
Alphonse Osbert (1857-1939) was a French Symbolist painter.
Sappho is in his signature style of “ghostlike Muses in mysterious landscapes bathed in the unearthly light of a sun or moon, rendered with abundant use of the colour blue.“
From what I can find, his work seems to have fallen from grace in the current day. Pity.
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