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Fairy of the Alps
Henri Fantin-Latourc. 1885
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Henri Fantin-Latour’s drawings featured imaginative compositions, often inspired by the music of contemporary German composers. This sheet relates to the symphonic work <em>Manfred</em> by Robert Schumann (1848), a drama in which Manfred encounters apparitions while mourning his lost lover. Fantin used layers of dark charcoal to evoke the emotional tenor of his subject and to translate the experience of listening to Schumann’s music using a visual medium.
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- Title: Fairy of the Alps
- Creator: Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836-1904)
- Date Created: c. 1885
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 62.5 x 46.7 cm (24 5/8 x 18 3/8 in.)
- Provenance: Madame Albert Esnault-Pelterie, Paris, (her sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 4, 1937, no. 11), (sale, De Baecque et Associés, Paris, June 19, 2017, no. 230), (Jill Newhouse, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH), Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.225
- Medium: charcoal with white chalk and black chalk, with framing lines in black crayon and squaring marks in graphite, on laid paper discolored to tan
- Inscriptions: signed, upper right, in charcoal: Fantin
- Fun Fact: This drawing relates to a print of the same year. Fantin used this sheet to work out his composition before completing a drawing on tracing paper, which was then used to transfer the image to a lithographic stone.
- Department: Drawings
- Culture: France
- Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Whitehill Art Purchase Endowment Fund
- Collection: DR - French
- Accession Number: 2019.225
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