"Important Bronze Sculpture "salomé" By Lévy"
Charles Octave Lévy, French sculptor (Paris 1840 - 1899) student of Toussaint, appears at the Salon from 1873 to 1898, he represents here Salome, Jewish princess (according to the New Testament) who gives in to the instigations of her mother Herodias by asking her uncle Herod Antipas whom she had charmed with her dances, the head of Saint John the Baptist and places a kiss on the severed head of the prophet who rejected her. Represented in Christian art then in the Renaissance, Salome became an erotic symbol in the 19th century. She appears in the painted works of Gustave Moreau, Audrey Beardsley, we find her in literature with Mallarmé, Flaubert or Appolinaire. 
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