The Kiss of the Sphinx
The Kiss of the Sphinx is an oil on canvas painting of 1895 by the German symbolist artist Franz Stuck. It was painted in the same year that Stuck became a professor at Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. The iconography of a sensuous, dangerous femme fatale is a recurring item in Stuck's work. References

1895 paintings
Paintings by Franz von Stuck
Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest)