Finale de la Valküre

Finale de la Valküre

Item Information

Title:
Finale de la Valküre
Description:
On the right, in the foreground, Brünnhilde is lying on a rock covered with moss and shaded by a tall fir tree. Behind her, standing with both arms raised, Wotan has just struck the rock with his spear. Between his daughter and him, the flame has sprung up and spreads, throwing fantastic light on both of them. Night landscape and hills off on the left. (Wagner, la Valküre, last scene)
Artist:
Fantin-Latour, Henri, 1836-1904
Name on Item:
Fantin
Date:
1879
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Lithographs
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904). Lithographs and Other Prints
Subjects:
Fictitious characters
Fire
Odin (Norse deity)
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Ring des Nibelungen. Walküre
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Notes:
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Hédiard: H. 24
Additional information accompanying item: Margins rectified. Signed lower left "Fantin." Upper margin "R. Wagner." First state - without the name of the printer. 7 or 8 trial proofs. This impression signed, with word "Wali (!)ure" written by the artist in red.
Notes (acquisition):
Gift; Albert H. Wiggin; 1949
Notes (date):
Date from catalogue raisonné.
Notes (citation):
Hédiard, Germain. "Fantin-Latour : catalogue de l'oeuvre lithographique du maître, précédé d'une étude par Germain Hédiard et d'une notice sur Germain Hédiard par Léonce Bénédite." Librairie de l'art ancien et moderne, 1906, Paris.
Notes (object):
First state.
Identifier:
17_10_000376
Barcode:
36666000192696