Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach, "Sphinx with Undine" (1902)

The two ladies, stone and flesh, are looking at the sea and who knows which kind of conversation they might be having.

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Félicien Rops, "The Sphinx".

The watercolour was done between 1878 and 1881, and... well, there's a lady who really likes mystery (or half-lioness women) and a green devil seems to approve of her buttocks. I'm sure there's a metaphor here, somewhere.

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