Gismonda

Gismonda

by Georges Rochegrosse
c.1915
27 W. x 36 H. inches (68 x 91 cm)
$360.00 paper, has tears

French opera poster for Gismonda by Henry Février, inspired from original text by Victorien Sardou, involving a fierce widowed mother who is caught in political turmoil and romantic entanglements. This scene depicts her taking a hatchet to her enemy screaming, “Vous avez donné mon fils au tigre; je vous donne à l'enfer! (You sent my son to the tiger; I'll send you to Hell!)”

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