Sappho Leaping into the Sea from the Leucadian Promontory by CHASSÉRIAU, Théodore

CHASSÉRIAU, Théodore

(b. 1819, Sainte-Barbe de Samana, d. 1856, Paris)

	Sappho Leaping into the Sea from the Leucadian Promontory c. 1840 Watercolour over graphite, 370 x 228 mm Musée du Louvre, Paris
This watercolour drew its inspiration from the Nouvelles Méditations Poétiques Alphonse Lamartine, which follows the pathetic version of Sappho's death told the first time in Ovid's Heroides.