Woman Bitten by a Serpent
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Woman Bitten by a Serpent is an 1847 marble sculpture by Auguste Clésinger, now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. It depicts a violently contorted nude among a bed of flowers, with a small snake latched
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Alfred Mosselman
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Alfred Mosselman or Alfred Mosselmann was a Belgian aristocrat and industrialist who made a fortune in canal- and road-building. He was also a patron of the arts, particularly of his long-time lover A
Woman Bitten by a Serpent
…It depicts a violently contorted nude among a bed of flowers, with a small snake latched onto her left arm. It was commissioned by the industrialist Alfred Mosselman and first exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1847, where it and Thomas Couture's The Romans in their Decadence were the most commented-upon works. Clésinger…
Detail from Portrait of Mr and Mrs Mosselman and their two daughters, by Alfred de Dreux