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Friday, May 25, 2012

The Caress -- Fernard Khnopff, 1896.

Speranza "The Caress" (1896), by the Belgian symbolist painter Fernand Khnopff (1858–1921), is a representation of the myth of Oedipus and the Sphinx and portrays a creature with a woman's head and a cheetah's body (often misidentified as a leopard's).

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