Fairy of the Alps
Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836–1904)
c. 1885
- Medium
- charcoal with white chalk and black chalk, with framing lines in black crayon and squaring marks in graphite, on laid paper discolored to tan
- Classification
- Drawing
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 62.5 x 46.7 cm (24 5/8 x 18 3/8 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Drawings
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Whitehill Art Purchase Endowment Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Henri Fantin-Latour’s drawings featured imaginative compositions, often inspired by the music of contemporary German composers. This sheet relates to the symphonic work Manfred by Robert Schumann (1848), a drama in which Manfred encounters apparitions while mourning his lost lover. Fantin used layers of dark charcoal to evoke the emotional tenor of his subject and to translate the experience of listening to Schumann’s music using a visual medium.
