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Another piece of the relief from which I posted a few days ago two people kissing. I have to find more about this sculpture which I think is dedicated to a painter... To be confirmed. Meanwhile a poem by Mr. Victor Hugo:

Death and beauty are two things profound,

So of dark and azure, that one might say that

They were two sisters terrible and fecund

Possessing the one enigma, the one secret.



O women, voices, gazes, black hair, blonde tresses,

Blaze out, I die! Own to light, love, attraction,

O pearls the sea mingles with its great masses,

O gleaming birds of the forest’s sombre ocean!



Judith, our fates are closer to one another’s

Than one might think, seeing my face and yours:

The whole divine abyss is present in your eyes,



And I feel the starry gulf within my soul;

We are both neighbours of the silent skies.

Madame, since you’re beautiful, and I’m old.