Woman Bitten by a Snake (Femme piquée par un serpent)
by CLÉSINGER, Auguste, Marble, 56 x 180 x 70 cm
The artist’s model was Baudelaire’s muse, Apollonie Sabatier (1822-1890), a Parisian beauty who held a salon in Paris and was familiarly known as “La Pr�sidente”; in lending her body to Cl�singer she brought him unhoped-for success.