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It Is a Skull with a Wreath of Roses
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
A skull with a female torso and a snake's tail against a dark background. Below the image the text: "It is a skull with a wreath of roses. It possesses the body of a woman of pearly whiteness". Sixth print of ten from the first series of illustrations for Gustave Flaubert's The Temptation of Saint Anthony.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineHet is een doodshoofd met een krans van rozen. 1888. Odilon Redon. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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