Death of Abel - Francois Xavier Fabre Fine Art Print

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He reclines like a collapsed epiphany. Thighs slack, torso torqued, arms limp in surrender, splayed above him like guilt made flesh. Fabre’s Death of Abel isn’t so much a murder scene as an autopsy of want. Not Eden lost but Rome remembered.

The lion skin draped over his loins doesn’t conceal shame; it flaunts conquest, eroticized into fur. And his curls aren't biblical. They're barbershop Aphrodite, a boy-god midway between ecstasy and extinction.

Cain’s absence is structural, not narrative. The composition chokes on it. Because Abel isn’t the victim; he’s the altar. And the fire behind him, untended, stages its own orgy of color and consequence. Forget moment after death. Here's the instant before myth.

Artist Biography

François-Xavier Fabre painted with the restraint of empire and the libido of myth. Born in Montpellier in 1766, trained in Jacques-Louis David’s Paris then baptized in Florentine excess, Fabre fused neoclassical rigor with erotic suggestion.

His canvases whisper Roman discipline and pulse with Italian appetites. Nudes gleam like marble seduced into flesh. As a salon laureate and private collector, he choreographed male vulnerability into pictorial tension, crafting death, exile, and myth as aesthetic theatre.

Fabre’s brush made murder devotional, made myth anatomical, made bodies into empires of suggestion. He died in 1837, but his paintings still writhe — elegant, pagan, poised to sin.

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★★★★★ "Thanks again, Toby, another great delivery." — Peter
★★★★★ "Delighted, all as described." — Clare
★★★★★ "Gorgeous print. Brilliant communication!" — Aaron
★★★★★ "Quality and colors are outstanding." — Roumayne
★★★★★ "Fast shipping! Talented artist! Smooth transaction!" — Jim
★★★★★ "Thanks again, Toby, another great delivery." — Peter

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Rich colors, velvety matte texture

3 chic frame choices

Museum-grade fine art paper

Luxe water-based inks

FSC® certified paper & wood

Brand new, just for you

Printed & shipped in 2-4 days

Shipped carbon neutral

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A Century of Color

Printed using a pro-lab process that helps art stay bold & breathtaking for up to 100 yr with non-toxic, archival-grade inks.

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