Frontispice. Vérité

Frontispice. Vérité

Item Information

Title:
Frontispice. Vérité
Description:
At the top of the composition, Fame flies by blowing her trumpet which she holds with her right hand. With her left hand, she supports one end of a tablet. The other end of the tablet is supported by a little child Cupid. Near him, another little Cupid brings a palm. Truth, naked and seen from behind, comes out of the well; her left knee is placed on the circular margin that occupies the bottom of the composition. She holds a long drapery in her left arm and in her right hand she holds a stylet. She finishes engraving on the tablet the names of R. Schumann, H. Berlioz, R. Wagner, J. Brahms. In the distance, there is a landscape where the sky and the hills are reflected in the water.
Artist:
Fantin-Latour, Henri, 1836-1904
Name on Item:
H. Fantin
Date:
1885
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Lithographs
Book illustrations
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904). Lithographs and Other Prints
Subjects:
Composers
Fictitious characters
Supernatural beings
Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883
Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897
Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856
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Notes:
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Hédiard: H. 56
Additional information accompanying item: Margins not rectified. Second state - with the name "Imp. Lemercier et Cie, Paris." Edition of 25 proofs on chine collé, and 25 proofs on papier bleuté de couverture. Stone destroyed. Executed in 1885. This impression on papier bleuté, signed and dedicated to Bracquemond.
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_000276
Barcode:
36666003797202