The Song of Songs (French: Le Cantique des cantiques) is an 1853 oil painting by the French artist Gustave Moreau. It is inspired by a passage from the biblical Song of Songs.Exum p.32-33 It depicts a scene where the Shulamite woman is attacked by the drunken city watchmen.Mathieu & Lacambre p.92 It was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 held in Paris. It is now in the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon.https://musees.dijon.fr/artworks/le-cantique-des-cantiques/ References
Bibliography Exum, J. Cheryl. Art as Biblical Commentary: Visual Criticism from Hagar the Wife of Abraham to Mary the Mother of Jesus. Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Mathieu, Pierre-Louis & Lacambre, Geneviève. The Gustave Moreau Museum. Edition de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1997.