He also painted a work that shows a half-nude woman pointing at a floating, disembodied head that emanates light.
This artist's works inspired sonnets from his friend Julian del Casal and his early works include a Portrait of Eugene Lacheurié. He depicted Sappho on the Cliffs, while a figure with a bejeweled sitar holds up a blue flower and sits astride a shrieking multicolored wyvern in his Dream of the Orient. A single head emerging out of the blue and surrounded by a mist of gold and mauve constitutes one of his depictions of Orpheus, while another shows a head in the hands of a Thracian woman. One of his works shows a young man holding the laurel of Apollo above his head, while behind him a female figure holding a sword and hourglass hovers diagonally. That painting, which was dedicated to his master Theodore Chasseriau, was his The Young Man with Death. He was more famous for painting works like Hercules and the Hydra and made a splash at the 1864 salon with his Oedipus and the Sphinx. He also painted a work that shows a half-nude woman pointing at a floating, disembodied head that emanates light. For 10 points, name this painter of The Apparition, who, like Odilon Redon and Puvis de Chavannes, was a major French symbolist.
This artist's works inspired sonnets from his friend Julian del Casal and his early works include a Portrait of Eugene Lacheurié.
{Gustave Moreau}