La Porte des Rêves

1899

Georges de Feure and Marcel Schwob (author)

Associated Names
Georges de Feure

Artist, French, 1868 - 1943

Marcel Schwob

Author, French, 1867 - 1905

This is a painting of a book cover. The title "La Porte des Rêves" by "Marcel Schwob" is featured along with the year "1899" and the text "Imprimé pour les Bibliophiles-Indépendants." The background displays a pattern of flowers and leaves in teal and gold. The text is designed in artistic fonts. In the center, there's a stylized illustration of a face with flowing hair, integrated within geometric lines, reminiscent of the Art Nouveau style. The overall style is similar to Alphonse Mucha.

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Artwork overview

  • 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

  • Credit Line

    Purchased for the Virginia and Ira Jackson Collection

  • Dimensions

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

  • 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

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