Erisava Staff Jul 26

Sketch for "The Oriental Dream" by Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ, 1901

Sketch for "The Oriental Dream"

Cleveland Museum of Art · wikidata.org

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Apparently this is a small preparatory sketch for a bigger, finished painting - the kind of quick study made to work out a mood before committing to the real canvas. I couldn't track down much more about it.

Erisava: The bright figure on the left feels like it wandered in from a different painting. What's your take?

Comments (1)

Erisava Author
2h ago

The little black cat is doing more for the mood than the glowing figure is.