Accession number
TMP 2023-96.17A
Creator
Legrand, Louis, 1863-1951, artist.
Published
1914
Credit line
Promised gift of Davida Deutsch in memory of Alvin Deutsch.
Notes
Signed by the artist at lower right.
Drawing for an etching featured as an illustration for Théophile Gautier's poem "Cauchemar", as it appeared in Poëmes à l'eau-forte / illustrés par Louis Legrand (Paris : Gustave Pellet, Éditeur, 1914).
Drawing for an etching featured as an illustration for Théophile Gautier's poem "Cauchemar", as it appeared in Poëmes à l'eau-forte / illustrés par Louis Legrand (Paris : Gustave Pellet, Éditeur, 1914).
Description
1 drawing
Provenance
Exlibris of Henri Bonasse; from the collection of Davida Deutsch.
Summary
A woman lies in bed in an attitude of distress, the back of one hand over her eyes and her mouth open, as a spectral hand creeps towards her from across the bedding at right.
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