Auguste HIOLLE (1866-1917): Pastoral scene with female figures, pastel on paper laid down on canvas, signed and dated lower right "Aug. Hiolle 1904", untitled. Large symbolist-inspired Art Nouveau composition depicting two young women embracing in the foreground, draped silhouettes in the background, beneath a waterside woodland. A dreamlike work referring to the Golden Age and Arcadia dear to Symbolist artists (dimensions 155 x 81 cm, with frame 165 x 91 cm - soiling, wear, minor alterations, framing to be revised).