Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Winged Figure with the Scythe
A powerful winged figure rises above clouds with a long scythe held across the body. A smaller pale human form hangs within the embrace. Laurens’s design brings an allegory of mortality into Flammarion’s story of humanity facing the possible end of the world.
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Jean-Paul Laurens. "The Winged Figure with the Scythe" [editorial title]. In Omega: The Last Days of the World, Camille Flammarion; multiple illustrators credited in the supplied title. New York: The Cosmopolitan Publishing Company; undated title, copyright 1894 by J. B. Walker., undated edition, The Cosmopolitan Publishing Company. Source scan leaf 60. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0405-0054
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Jean-Paul Laurens. The Winged Figure with the Scythe. Omega: The Last Days of the World. Scan leaf 60. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0405-0054