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Les Cantilènes: Page de titre
Les Cantilènes: Title Page
Les Cantilènes: Page de titre
Emile Bernard (French, 1868–1941)
1892
Medium/Technique
Zincograph, one from set of nine zincographs in portfolio.
Dimensions
Image: 32.5 x 19.3 cm (12 13/16 x 7 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 46.1 x 31 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: 46.1 x 31 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 Number2010.1262.1
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 28
DescriptionAs 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
Blind stamp on sheet ll: Heinrich Neuerburg Collection (Lugt 1344a)
InscriptionsNumbered in graphite on sheet ll: 1046a
Numbered in graphite on sheet lr: 35
Numbered in graphite on sheet lr: 35
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)