Although he spent most of his adult life living in Paris, the painter and graphic artist Konstanty Brandel often visited his native Poland and continued to consider himself a Polish artist. His work may be described as Symbolist and has much in common with that of figures such as Odilon Redon and Gustave Doré, although Hieronymus Bosch, Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Francisco de Goya have also been cited as possible influences.

Brandel’s imagery often includes architecture fantastically interpreted or disturbing landscapes. Both are frequently inhabited by men, women and animals engaged in strange or ritualistic behaviour and sometimes endowed with supernatural powers such as the ability to float or fly. Elsewhere he depicts scenes from Greek mythology. Here, hovering over an expanse of water a naked female is shown with Pegasus, the winged horse of Greek mythology, son of the sea god Poseidon, and the Gorgon Medusa. The sun and moon shining simultaneously suggest that the female might be Eos, the goddess of dawn.