After Joséphin Péladan, The Supreme Vice

Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921)

1885

Pastels, pencil, and charcoal on paper

23.9 x 12.3cm.

Yet another late-nineteenth-century intonation of the sphinx, this one with a skull-like head, thus making its conection to danger and death obvious. — George P. Landow