Accession number
PML 140765.2
Creator
Fantin-Latour, Henri, 1836-1904.
Published
1886?
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Drawing for a frontispiece illustration for Adolphe Jullien's Richard Wagner : sa vie et ses oeuvres (Paris : Jules Rouam,1886).
Bound into: Wagner, Richard. Parsifal. Paris : Armand Colin & Cie, 1893 (PML 140765).
Bound into: Wagner, Richard. Parsifal. Paris : Armand Colin & Cie, 1893 (PML 140765).
Description
1 drawing.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed "Fantin" at bottom left.
Provenance
Arthur Meyer; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Drawing shows a semi-nude female figure, probably intended to represent Fame, seated at the base of a monument with a trumpet lying at her knee, inscribing dates below the name of Richard Wagner.
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