Georges de FeureFrench, 1868–1943La source du Mal (The Source of Evil)
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Where is “La source du Mal (The Source of Evil)” now? Collection: Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.
Minneapolis, United States
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About the work
The artistic currents fomented in fin-de-siècle France were such that a single artist could design symbolist prints in one decade, an Art Nouveau boudoir for the Paris Exposition Universelle the next, and airplanes the next. That is what Georges de Feure did. While exploring symbolism in the 1890s he focused on the femme fatale, inspired by the misogynistic verse in Charles Baudelaire's 1857 Les Fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil). In the diabolical scene envisioned here, de Feure's woman of a thousand curves, as critic Octave Uzanne described her, infects all of nature with her lethal power.
Minneapolis Institute of Art
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- P.13, 405
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- Image: Minneapolis Institute of Art — public domain
