Fairy of the Alps
c. 1885
- 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
- Dimensions
- 62.5 × 46.7 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-193426
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.
Provenance
Whitehill Art Purchase Endowment Fund, 2019.225
Registry history
- c. 1885 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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