That chapel’s 1530 frescoes hold something historians still can’t explain: the only known left-handed female archer in art history — bow drawn, aimed straight down at the pit. (3/3)
Orpheus in Hades, Pierre Amédée Marcel-Béronneau, 1897.
Marcel-Béronneau studied directly under Gustave Moreau, absorbing his teacher's obsession with myth and mood before Moreau's death the following year, in 1898. This canvas reads almost like a direct answer to Moreau's own Orpheus paintings, same eerie stillness, same golden gloom pressing in from every side. A student inheriting the vision just as the master was running out of time to paint it himself.