A Stendhal

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
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
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Notes:
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Hédiard: H. 105
Additional information accompanying item: Margins not rectified. Signed below, to the left - "Fantin." Third state - the inscriptions in the margin effaced. With the name "Imp. Lemercier, Paris." Edition of 25 proofs. Stone destroyed. Executed in 1892. Reproduced by heliogravure in "l'Artiste." issue of June 1892. This is a trial proof of the reproduction.
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):
Third state.
Identifier:
17_10_000123
Barcode:
36666000202487