The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] Rectangle Canvas Wrap

The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] Rectangle Canvas Wrap

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The Bat Woman [La Femme Chauve-Souris] (1890)
by Albert Joseph Pénot (French, 1862–1930)

She hovers in darkness, wings spread wide, her body caught between the human and something older. She is not afraid. She is not fleeing. She is simply there, in the dark, exactly where she belongs.

Albert Joseph Pénot was a French painter whose work occupied a distinctive corner of late 19th-century Symbolism — technically accomplished Academic painting in service of subjects that were anything but conventional. He is best known today for a series of paintings centered on solitary female figures in macabre or supernatural settings: women with bat wings, women in shadow, women who exist at the edge of the natural world and seem entirely comfortable there.

Pénot's approach was singular: the figure is always the priority. The environments surrounding his subjects are rarely fully realized — misty atmospheres, patches of shadow and light, darkness that suggests rather than defines. This gives his women an uncanny quality of existing outside of any specific place or time. They are not in a story. They simply are.

La Femme Chauve-Souris is his most iconic image — and one of the defining works of dark feminine art from the fin de siècle.

Rectangle Canvas Wrap

Gallery-quality canvas with fade-resistant inks and a 1.25" deep pine frame sourced from renewable forests. Arrives wrapped and ready to hang.

  • Materials: cotton and polyester composite canvas, pine wood frame
  • Inner frame: radiata pine from renewable forests
  • Leveling bumpers included for wall protection
  • Ready to hang — mounting hardware pre-attached

Care: Dust gently with a clean, damp cloth as needed.

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