mermaidenmystic:“Sapho ou La poésie lyrique. Alphonse Osbert. I think perhaps he was na
mermaidenmystic:“Sapho ou La poésie lyrique. Alphonse Osbert. I think perhaps he was naming his painting twice: Sappho, or The Lyrical Poetry. Sappho, the famous Greek poet from the Isle of Lesbos, is the reason we refer to women who love other women as lesbian or sapphic; her poetry is also the reason we refer to short, song-like poems as lyric poems, as she accompanied her poems on her lyre, the string instrument pictured here beside her.” (thank you ‘venuscomb’)Alphonse Osbert (French artist, 1857-1939) -- source link