The Muse
Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836-1904)
1886
- Medium
- Lithograph in black with scraping on stone on ivory wove paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Image: 22.9 × 15.2 cm (9 1/16 × 6 in.); Sheet: 32.5 × 25.4 cm (12 13/16 × 10 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Charles Deering 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
Paying homage to the composer, Fantin depicts Richard Wagner seated at a desk in front of an open book with a plume in hand. The figure of a muse bearing a palm leaf, a symbol of divine inspiration and genius, embraces the composer.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
