A Belioz (grande planche)

A Belioz (grande planche)

Item Information

Title:
A Belioz (grande planche)
Description:
In the middle of the image is the composer who sits and meditates and is draped in a great romantic cloak. His right hand is on his chin and his left hand is holding a sheet of paper. Three female figures are arranged around him. The one on the left, seen in profile, holds a palm in her right hand. In her other hand she holds a laurel wreath and is ready to crown him. The middle female figure is flying and blows a trumpet. The female figure on the right is seen from the profile and lost in the shadow. She holds a lyre.
Artist:
Fantin-Latour, Henri, 1836-1904
Name on Item:
H. Fantin
Date:
1897
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Lithographs
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904). Lithographs and Other Prints
Subjects:
Composers
Supernatural beings
Trumpets
Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869
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Notes:
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Hédiard: H. 132
Additional information accompanying item: Margins not rectified. Below to the left, "A.H. Berlioz, H. Fantin." Second state - lower margin - two sketches, portraits of Berlioz. The edition appeared in "l'Album d'estampe originales de la Galerie Vollard, 1897." This is a trial proof.
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_000282
Barcode:
36666003797145