When you visit the Musée d'Orsay, you inevitably come to a stop in front of an extraordinary work by sculptor Clesinger. Its title is "The woman stung by a snake": a naked woman, splendid, languid, her body abandoned, seems to twist in pain under the bite of a snake wrapped around her wrist. When it was presented at the Salon in 1847, this work caused an incredible scandal ...
"Worse than naked"
2020-09-29T15:56:40.362Z
When you visit the Musée d'Orsay, you inevitably come to a stop in front of an extraordinary work by sculptor Clesinger. Its title is "The Woman Stung by a Serpent". : a naked woman, splendid, languid, her body abandoned, seems to twist in pain under the bite of a snake wrapped around her wrist. When it was presented at the Salon in 1847, this work caused an incredible scandal ...
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