Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse (1859 - 1938) ~ Lust and death, Watercolour and heightened gouache on pencil line, illustration for the Temptation of St Anthony by Gustave Flaubert published in 1907.

Jean de Bosschère (1878 – 1953) ~ The Devil, illustration for The First Temptation of Saint Anthony by Flaubert 1924

Leonor Fini (1908-1996) ... illustration for The Temptation Of Saint Anthony by Gustave Flaubert, lithograph 1966

Odilon Redon...print 1889

 

The Sphinx: My gaze, which nothing can deflect, remains fixed across all things on an unreachable horizon. The Chimera: I am full of lightness and joy!

A Gustave Flaubert

Hermann Naumann...the Temptation of St Anthony...

Illustration for The Temptation of St. Anthony 1965

"O bliss! bliss! I have seen the birth of life; I have seen the
beginning of motion. The blood beats so strongly in my veins that it
seems about to burst them. I feel a longing to fly, to swim, to bark, to
bellow, to howl. I would like to have wings, a tortoise-shell, a rind,
to blow out smoke, to wear a trunk, to twist my body, to spread myself
everywhere, to be in everything, to emanate with odours, to grow like
plants, to flow like water, to vibrate like sound, to shine like light,
to be outlined on every form, to penetrate every atom, to descend to the
very depths of matter--to be matter!"

The Temptation of St. Anthony or A Revelation of the Soul - 

 Gustave Flaubert