Bonaparte Before the Sphinx | Jean-Léon Gérôme | 1886 Fernand Khnopff using the natural world to
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Bonaparte Before the Sphinx Jean Léon Gérôme 1886 Fernand Khnopff using the natural world to using the natural world to evoke themes of transcendence and the eternal Yet the painting holds another secret: in the glass carafe of wine at the table’s edge