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GROS, Antoine-Jean (b. 1771, Paris, d. 1835, Meudon) Sappho at Leucate 1801 Oil on canvas, 122 x 100 cm Mus?e Baron G?rard, Bayeux The young Gros moved his Salon audience in 1801, with his unearthly Sappho at Leucate, in which the poetess, in agonies of rejection, casts herself into the sea. Touched by the moonlight shimmering through her transparent veil, Sappho seems poised between two worlds; behind her on the cliffs stands a sacrificial altar. --- Keywords: -------------- Author: GROS, Antoine-Jean Title: Sappho at Leucate Form: painting Time-line: 1801-1850 School: French Type: m
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