After Flaubert. The Temptation of St Anthony
by KHNOPFF, Fernand, Gouache, oil and charcoal on paper, 85 x 85 cm
“After Flaubert”, indebted to the striking light effects and rich impastos of Moreau’s work of the 1870s and Gustave Flaubert’s novel La Tentation de Saint Antoine (1874), marked Khnopff’s lifelong fascination with literature. It explores evocative expression, which, along with his association with the Jeune Belgique literary movement, put Khnopff in the Symbolist camp.