A Stendhal
Item Information
- Title:
- A Stendhal
- Description:
-
An allegorical figure of a young winged woman adorns the tomb of Stendhal with flowers. She is standing, turned to the left, and naked to the hips. She has a garland in both hands and places it on the pediment of the monument. On the base of the tomb, there is an inscription written in three lines: Stendhal, Milanese, He lived, he wrote, he loved. In the background of dark foliage.
- Artist:
- Fantin-Latour, Henri, 1836-1904
- Name on Item:
-
Fantin
- Date:
-
1892
- Format:
-
Prints
- Genre:
-
Lithographs
- Location:
-
Boston Public Library
Arts Department - Collection (local):
-
Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904). Lithographs and Other Prints
- Subjects:
-
Authors
Supernatural beings
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Stendhal, 1783-1842
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/6w92bg57z
- Terms of Use:
-
No Copyright - United States
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Notes:
-
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Hédiard: H. 105
Additional information accompanying item: Margins not rectified. Signed below, to the left - "Fantin." Second state - the date "19" substituted for "12" (the ceremony which was to take place at the Montmartre cemetery in honor of Stendhal was changed from the 12th of June to the 19th of June). The stone has undergone a general reworking, especially the head, which has been retouched and made more clear. 7 trial proofs and 10 other proofs. This proof signed and dedicated to Mme Chéramy.
- Notes (acquisition):
-
Gift; Albert H. Wiggin; 1949
- Notes (date):
-
Date from catalogue raisonné.
- Notes (citation):
-
Hédiard, Germain. "Fantin-Latour : catalogue de l'oeuvre lithographique du maître, précédé d'une étude par Germain Hédiard et d'une notice sur Germain Hédiard par Léonce Bénédite." Librairie de l'art ancien et moderne, 1906, Paris.
- Notes (object):
-
Second state.
- Identifier:
-
17_10_000260
- Barcode:
-
36666003776198
Downloads
- Primary (full resolution, uncompressed)(TIF, 77.2 MB)
- Large (full resolution)(JPEG, 6.48 MB)
- Medium(JPEG, 160 KB)