Hélène by Gustave Moreau (1880)

Sepia print of a jeweled woman holding a flower atop a ruin, with fallen warriors below and crumbling towers around her.

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This sepia-toned print shows a richly dressed woman standing on a ruined stone pedestal, holding a small flower, amid crumbling towers. Fallen figures and armored bodies lie in the foreground, suggesting the aftermath of battle. The work is a facsimile of Gustave Moreau's 1880 painting Hélène, published in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts.

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1880

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Wikimedia Commons

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Public domain