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Les Cantilènes: Il la prend par sa belle et longue chevelure (La femme perfide)
He takes her by her beautiful long hair
Les Cantilènes: Il la prend par sa belle et longue chevelure (La femme perfide)
Emile Bernard (French, 1868–1941)
1892
Medium/Technique
Zincograph, one from set of 9 zincographs in portfolio.
Dimensions
Image: 33 x 19 cm (13 x 7 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 46 x 30.9 cm (18 1/8 x 12 3/16 in.)
Lender accessory (hard cover portfolio): 65.5 x 52 x 3.5 cm (25 13/16 x 20 1/2 x 1 3/8 in.)
Sheet: 46 x 30.9 cm (18 1/8 x 12 3/16 in.)
Lender accessory (hard cover portfolio): 65.5 x 52 x 3.5 cm (25 13/16 x 20 1/2 x 1 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo
Accession Number2010.1262.8
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints – Portfolios
Illustrations for Les Cantilènes, a collection of forty Symbolist lyric poems by poet Jean Moréas (Ioannis A. Papadiamantopoulos,1856-1910), first published in 1886. As indicated on the Title Page, the series of nine black and white zincographs was envisaged as a supplement for Le Livre d'Art., an art revue.
Catalogue Raisonné
Morane 35
DescriptionThis illustration is for the poem La Femme Perfide (The Disloyal Woman). As indicated on the Title Page, the series of nine black and white zincographs was envisaged as a supplement for Le Livre d'Art., an art revue.
Signed
Signed in graphite on sheet ll: E. Bernard
Marks
Two blindstamps on sheet ll: Heinrich Neuerburg Collection (Lugt 1344a)
InscriptionsNumbered in graphite on sheet ll: 1046c
Numbered in graphite on sheet lr: 37
Numbered in graphite on sheet lr: 37
ProvenanceG. Pochet, Paris. 1918, Emil Hölzl (b. 1884 - d. 1930), Leipzig; November 13, 1918, Emil Hölzl sale, F. A. C. Prestel, Frankfurt, lot 38. Heinrich Stinnes (d. 1932), Cologne; June 20-22, 1938, posthumous Stinnes sale, Klipstein, Bern, lot 35. Between about 1945 and 1956, acquired by Heinrich Neuerburg (b. 1883 - d. 1956), Cologne (Lugt 1344a); by descent to his son, Walter Neuerburg (b. 1912 - d. 1986), Bonn; November 1, 1988, Neuerburg collection sale, Christie's, New York, lot 12. 2004, Samuel Josefowitz, Lausanne, Switzerland and Whitchurch, England; March 19, 2004, sold by Josefowitz to Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, Marblehead, MA and Naples, FL; 2010, year-end gift of Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 26, 2011)