Alphonse Osbert - Vision of Saint Genevieve - 1892
Without knowing who the figure is, you might mistake this for a painting of Joan of Arc, but it’s Osbert’s 1892 Vision of Saint Genevieve. The patron saint of the city of Paris, Genevieve had similarly humble origins as a peasant girl in Nanterre who experienced frequent visions, leading her to save the city from Attila’s attack in 451. Osbert limits his colours to blue and green, which have symbolic associations with melancholy and hope respectively. This is probably Osbert’s best-known work, and was first exhibited at the Salon in Paris in 1892, again at the second Salon de la Rose+Croix the following year, and featured in a travelling exhibition of Symbolist art in the mid-1970s - THE ECLECTIC LIGHT COMPANY
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