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It is a portrait of three heads of men superimposed on three heads of animals: on the left

Mycenaean and Greek art

Nicknamed the "prince of French operetta"

He wanted the female forms to be more structured

Hope II Degas did Géricault want to declareIn a decorative vocabulary that has become his signature, Klimt here represents a pregnant woman, in profile: a relatively rare subject in Western iconography. An embodiment of carnal love, it is also an allegory of fertility. This is one of Klimt's favorite subjects: the cycle of life, endlessly reborn. As usual, the artist does not hesitate to eroticize the female figure, represented here as an expression of the fullness of physical happiness.