La Porte des Rêves, 1899

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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

Dimensions

book: 29.2 × 23.3 × 2.1 cm (11 1/2 × 9 3/16 × 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased for the Virginia and Ira Jackson Collection

Accession Number

2016.99.2

Artists / Makers

Georges de Feure (artist) French, 1868 - 1943

Marcel Schwob (author) French, 1867 - 1905

Image Use

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Inscription

signed by author in black ink on dedication page; by later hand in graphite upper right on endpaper: 1415950

Provenance

Gaston Héliot (bookplate, 1926). (Sims Reed, London); purchased 2016 by NGA.

Associated Names

Sims Reed Limited

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.