Devil Showing Woman to the People | Otto Greiner | c. 1897 Select Size:32" x 32" and quiet human interaction

and quiet human interaction

exuding a sense of malice and predation

the number of drinks consumed—three in this case—hinting at the man’s drunken state

Depicting Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau

showing faith not as spectacle

Devil Showing Woman to the People | Otto Greiner | c. 1897 Select Size:32" x 32" and quiet human interactionAbout the artwork: Otto Greiners Devil Showing Woman to the People (also known by its German title Die Feilbietung) is a provocative fin de sicle work in which the artist channels Symbolist concerns about morality, temptation, and the gaze into a striking composition where a diabolical figure parades a woman before an audience, implicating both the woman and the onlookers in an unsettling spectacle. While concrete scholarship on this specific piece is