French opera poster for Gismonda by Henry Février, inspired from original text by Victorien Sardou, involving a fierce widowed mother who is caught in political turmoil and romantic entanglements. This scene depicts her taking a hatchet to her enemy screaming, “Vous avez donné mon fils au tigre; je vous donne à l'enfer! (You sent my son to the tiger; I'll send you to Hell!)”