The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 24, 2024
Fairy of the Alps
c. 1885
(French, 1836–1904)
Sheet: 62.5 x 46.7 cm (24 5/8 x 18 3/8 in.)
Catalogue raisonné: Dubourg 1242
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
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.Description
Henri Fantin-Latour’s drawings featured imaginative compositions, often inspired by the music of contemporary German composers. This sheet relates to the symphonic work Manfred 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.- by 1901-1937Madame Albert Esnault-Pelterie, Paris1937(her sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 4, 1937, no. 11)2017(sale, De Baecque et Associés, Paris, June 19, 2017, no. 230)2017-2019(Jill Newhouse, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)2019-Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Hédiard, Germain. "Les Dessins de Fantin-Latour." Unpublished manuscript, 1901. Bibliothèque Nationale de France (YB3-2752-4). Mentioned: nos. 77 (dessins encadrés) and 12 (exposition chez M. Tempelaere)Dubourg, Victoria. Catalogue de l’œuvre complet (1849–1904) de Fantin-Latour. Paris: Floury, 1911. Mentioned: p. 129, no. 1242Tableaux modernes et du XIXe siècle [. . .] appartenant à M. X [. . .]. Paris: Hôtel Drouot, 1937. Mentioned: p. 4, no. 11
- Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-April 30, 2023).Exposition de dessins de Fantin-Latour. Galerie Tempelaere, Paris (December 2–21, 1901).
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