The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 18, 2024
Perched upon a Bust of Pallas
1875
(French, 1832–1883)
Image: 48.5 x 32.7 cm (19 1/8 x 12 7/8 in.); Sheet: 55.5 x 39 cm (21 7/8 x 15 3/8 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Ralph King 1926.297
Catalogue raisonné: Harris 83
Location: not on view
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.- From Block Books to Baskin: Artists as Illustrators. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 13-August 17, 1986).The Impressionist Aesthetic. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 10-October 31, 1982).
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