Symbolist School (c. 1900) - La Source Tarie

Oil on artist's board. Signature illegible.

In the sepulchral silence of final twilight, when time stands still before the gods set, lies this oval, a vestige of a fallen Valhalla. At the center of this desolate enclosure, the primordial fountain - once a source of dazzling promise - presents its dried-up vase, exhausted by the icy breath of earthly twilight. The glory of the hero who forged his destiny under the sign of sword and thunder has faded into nothingness, and today only the mournful rustling of the branches of a dead willow bears witness to his absence.

Dominating this spiritual ruin, the effigy of a stone faun gazes with stony eyes at the void where the vigor of the will once vibrated. A scene of infinite solitude, where the motif of death mingles with the murmur of withered leaves; a final offering to the fallen warrior who sought immortality and found only the embrace of the cold earth. Here, in the twilight of the waning century, myth turns to stone and water to ashes, awaiting the purifying fire that will restore the cosmos to its lost equilibrium in the shadow of eternity.

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