The Knight Did Not Die at the Crusade, plate five from Love
Maurice Denis (published by Ambroise Vollard (French, 1867-1939))
1898, published 1899
- Medium
- Lithograph in peach, pale green, and yellow on light ivory wove paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Image: 38.5 × 27.6 cm (15 3/16 × 10 7/8 in.); Sheet: 53 × 40.6 cm (20 7/8 × 16 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- John H. Wrenn Memorial Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
These 12 prints come from Love, a series of color lithographs that form a disjointed narrative about a woman who experiences love, although it is unclear if she is falling in love with a man, nature, or her faith. Each soft and dreamlike image is paired with a caption of fragmented poetry that serves as its title, but these phrases do not directly describe their corresponding images. Maurice Denis, who was also a writer, crafted these puzzling yet evocative captions to add layers of meaning through the interplay of text and image.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
