'Heart of Snow' 🔱
Artist: Edward Robert Hughes Date: 1907 Medium: Watercolour/bodycolour on paper Dimensions: 57.00cm high,113.00cm wide
The title derives from Beaudelaire’s poem La Beauté from Fleurs du mal 1857:
“In the blue air, strange sphinx, I brood supreme With heart of snow whiter than swan’s white crest” (As translated by Lord Alfred Douglas)