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Series Title: Illustration for "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe

Raven's Head in Profile

1875

Édouard Manet

(French, 1832–1883)
Culture
France, 19th century
Medium
lithograph
Measurements
Image: 17 x 15.5 cm (6 11/16 x 6 1/8 in.); Sheet: 32.5 x 24.7 cm (12 13/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1923.215
Catalogue raisonné
Harris 83
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
Print

Description

Edouard Manet created this lithograph for his friend Stephane Mallarmé’s 1875 French translation of American writer Edgar Allan Poe’s classic poem “The Raven” (1845) about a man mourning his deceased love who is visited by a raven that repeatedly cries, “Nevermore.” Mallarmé’s edition is considered one of the first modern livres d’artistes—books created specifically as works of visual art. Manet created four full-page illustrations, including the scene in which the raven stares at the narrator from the top of the bust of the goddess Athena, and a raven head design used on the book’s cover and on its advertising poster.

Raven's Head in Profile

1875

Édouard Manet

(French, 1832–1883)
France, 19th century

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