# Fairy of the Alps

- By: Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836–1904)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Whitehill Art Purchase Endowment Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.225)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2019.225/2019.225_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.