The Nights of Mr. Baudelaire (Les Nuits de Monsieur Baudelaire)

Durandeau1861

Details

Title: The Nights of Mr. Baudelaire (Les Nuits de Monsieur Baudelaire)
Creator: Durandeau
Date Created: 1861
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed on stone, lower left: “Durandeau”
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Weedon Endowment funds, 1981
Materials & Techniques: Lithograph on wove newsprint paper
Keywords: animals, birds, caricatures, night, ravens, symbolism, symbols
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: From “Le Boulevard” 10 December 1861, published by Bertauts (Paris)
Dimensions: Image dimensions: 275 mm x 211 mm (10.83 in. x 8.31 in.). Sheet dimensions: 434 mm x 292 mm (17.09 in. x 11.5 in.).
Bibliography: Beraldi vol. 6, p. 77 without first name or dates; see Robert J. Goldstein, “Censorship of Political Caricature in France” (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1989): p. 183 on the closing in 1863 of Le Boulevard; and Elisabeth Fallaize, “Etienne Carjat and ‘Le Boulevard’” (Geneva: Slatkine, 1987)
Associated People: Created by Durandeau (French, active 19th century)
Accession Number: 1981.30.1

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