Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour
Homage to Victor Hugo
1884
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Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour
Homage to Victor Hugo
1884
Physical Qualities
Charcoal, conté crayon and white chalk with stumping, erasing and scraping, Mount: 444 × 307 mm. (17 1/2 × 12 1/16 in.)
Sheet: 440 × 302 mm. (17 5/16 × 11 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds given in Memory of Joseph Katz by his Children
Object Number
1972.4
Partially draped, female figure sits in the lower left of the composition with a lyre dropped to her side (Poetry). She covers her face to express her grief. Standing to the right is another female figure holding a palm branch in her proper left hand and a trumpet in her right. The name of the poet appears above her head in white.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1972; Stephen Spector, New York; Henri Darrasse Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Dec. 6, 1909, lot 85, 550 francs.
The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas
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Fisher, Jay McKean, et al. The Essence of Line: French drawings from Ingres to Degas. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005, p. 220-22, ill.
Carlson, Victor, and Carol Hynning Smith. Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Baltimore Museum of Art. New York, NY: The American Federation of Arts, 1979, pp. 63, ill.
Mme. Fantin-Latour, Catalogue de l'oeuvre complet de Fantin-Latour, Paris: Henri Floury, 1911, p. 128, no. 1237.
Inscribed: RECTO: LL, (conté crayon), 'h. Fantin'; UC, (white chalk), 'VICTOR HUGO'.
