Le Corbeau (The Raven)
1875
Artist, French, 1832 - 1883
Author, American, 1809 - 1849
Translator, French, 1842 - 1898
Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with 1 original drawing in black ink, illustrative ex libris (unsigned), frontispiece, and a double suite of 4 full-page transfer lithographs
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
book: 55 × 36 × 1 cm (21 5/8 × 14 3/16 × 3/8 in.)
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Accession
2014.112.27
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Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 1970, no. 83
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; bequest of Mrs. Paul Mellon to NGA, 2014.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2016
In Celebration of Paul Mellon, NGA, 2016.
Bibliography
1970
Harris, Jean C. Edouard Manet, graphic works; a definitive catalogue raisonne. New York: Collector's Editions, 1970: no. 83, figs a-g.
Inscriptions
signed by author and artist in brown ink on verso of title page: Stephane Mallarme / E. Manet; signed EM on the stone in each lithograph