Gustave Moreau
In the Western culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the "femme fatale" became a more fashionable trope, and she is found in the paintings of the artists Edvard Munch, Gustav Klimt, Franz von Stuck and Gustave Moreau. The novel "À rebours" by Joris-Karl Huysmans includes these fevered imaginings about an image of Salome in a Moreau painting: