A Eugène Delacroix

A Eugène Delacroix

Item Information

Title:
A Eugène Delacroix
Description:
A figure of a winged and clothed woman surrounded by radiating light descends toward the tomb of Delacroix. In her left hand she holds a palm and from her other hand she drops flowers. On the right, we can see the Paris skyline, from the vantage point of Père-Lachaise. On the grave is engraved the name of Delacroix.
Artist:
Fantin-Latour, Henri, 1836-1904
Name on Item:
H. Fantin
Date:
1890
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Lithographs
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904). Lithographs and Other Prints
Subjects:
Artists
Supernatural beings
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Delacroix, Eugène, 1798-1863
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Notes:
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Hédiard: H. 93
Additional information accompanying item: Traces of border in crayon. Second state - with "Imp. Lemercier et Cie, Paris." Edition of 25 proofs. Stone destroyed. Executed in 1890. A proof of this, retouched and enhanced in gouache, was reproduced in "l'Artiste" of Oct. 1892, accompanying the preface of M. Flat to "les Memoires de Delacroix." This impression, signed, is of the reproduction in the magazine "L'Artiste," issue of Oct. 1892.
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_000102
Barcode:
36666000201943