École Symboliste (c. 1900) - La Source Tarie

- Oil on cardboard for artists. Signed illegibly.

- In the dead-silent stillness of the final twilight, there, where time stands still before the sunset of the deities, this oval rests as a remnant of fallen Valhalla. In the center of this desolate enclosure, the primal fountain — once a spring of glittering promises — presents its dried-up cup, exhausted by the cold breath of the world’s twilight. The glory of the hero, the one who forged his fate under the sign of the sword and the thunder, has faded into nothingness, and today only the funeral lull of the branches of a dead willow guards his absence.

Presiding over this ruin of the spirit, the stone faun’s effigy keeps a stony gaze on the void where the vigor of the will once beat. It is a scene of infinite loneliness, where the motive of death intertwines with the whisper of withered leaves; a final offering to the fallen warrior who sought immortality and only found the embrace of the cold earth. Here, in the twilight of the century that declines, myth becomes stone and water becomes ash, awaiting the purifying fire to restore the cosmos to its lost balance in the shadows of eternity.

- Image dimensions unframed: 45 x 55 cm / 65 x 75 cm with exclusive custom frame.

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