An Evening in Ancient Times

Alphonse Osbert was a French Symbolist painter. Now his works are unfortunately quite forgotten. He was born in Paris in 1857 and trained at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts in the city. His earliest passion was for the great Spanish masters but in the late 1880s he fell under the influence of Post-Impressionism and Symbolism. Inspired by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and the Symbolists, he chose to forsake depiction of real-world subject matter, and developed a poetic visual language of his own. His signature style consists of ghostlike Muses in mysterious landscapes bathed in the unearthly light of a sun or moon, rendered with abundant use of blue. The good example is the painting we see today which presents a mysterious and mystic evening in Ancient times. I love the atmosphere of the painting!

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