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signed and dated 1929 l.r., oil on canvas 180 by 153 cm.; 71 by 60 1/4 in. EXHIBITED Salon of 1930: Liege, Salon Quatriennal de Belgique, 1931; Delville was one of the most important figures in the Symbolist movement as a poet as well as a painter. He was one of the founders of the Salon pour I'Art, participated in the Salon des XX and pursued the ideas of Peladan through the Salon de la Rose Croix in Paris. He continued to apply the latter's precepts in Belgium even when Peladan withdrew from public life. Delville remained one of his most fervent admirers. He wrote in 1899: `Understood in its metaphysical sense, Beauty is one of the manifestations of the Absolute Being, Emanating from the harmonious rays of the Divine plan, it crosses the intellectual plane to shine once again across the natural plane, where it darkens into matter. He was very interested in occultism, idealism and esoterism. This important early work reflects the artist's keen interest in mythical subject matter, in common with his Belgian Symbolist Contemporaries, such as Khnopff and Fabry. In 1900 he was appointed professor at the Glasgow School of Art and later became its director. On his return to Brussels in 1905 he took up teaching at the Academie des Beaux-Ans where he taught until he retired in 1937.