La Porte des Rêves
1899
Artist, French, 1868 - 1943
Author, French, 1867 - 1905
Georges de Feure and Marcel Schwob (author)
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with fold-out etched frontispiece in 2 tones and hand-colored; 16 full-page wood engravings; 100 illustrated borders from 32 blocks; and 15 culs-de-lampe on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
book: 29.2 × 23.3 × 2.1 cm (11 1/2 × 9 3/16 × 13/16 in.)
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Accession Number
2016.99.2
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Gaston Héliot (bookplate, 1926). (Sims Reed, London); purchased 2016 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1970
Garvey, Eleanor M. The Turn of a Century, 1885-1910: Art Nouveau-Jugendstil Books. Cambridge, 1970: 59, no. 68.
1982
Ray, Gordon N. The Art of the French Illustrated Book 1700 to 1914. New York, 1982: 478, no. 367.
Inscriptions
signed by author in black ink on dedication page; by later hand in graphite upper right on endpaper: 1415950