Le Corbeau (The Raven)

1875

Edouard Manet

Artist, French, 1832 - 1883

Edgar Allan Poe

Author, American, 1809 - 1849

Stéphane Mallarmé

Translator, French, 1842 - 1898

Edouard Manet, Edgar Allan Poe (auhor)

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Artwork overview

  • 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

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    book: 55 × 36 × 1 cm (21 5/8 × 14 3/16 × 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.112.27

  • 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

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