The Raven on the Bust of Pallas, from Stéphane Mallarmé's translation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven Artist: Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883)

1875

Prints and Drawings

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Edgar Allan Poe’s writings were immensely popular in France, and probably none more so than The Raven. A translation of The Raven by the Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé was first published in 1874, and shortly afterward he and Édouard Manet became friends. Mallarmé and Manet are considered the founders of modern poetry and painting respectively, and the illustrated book they produced in 1875 was unlike any done previously. The spare image of the empty chair with shading indicating the soul of the narrator caught there “evermore,” and the shadow of the raven on the floor beside it, is the most audacious in all of Manet’s printed oeuvre.

Medium

Transfer lithograph

Dimensions

image: 18 7/8 × 12 5/16 in. (48 × 31.2 cm)
framed: 25 1/2 × 21 1/2 × 1 in. (64.8 × 54.6 × 2.5 cm)

Credit Line

The Arthur Ross Collection

Accession Number

2012.159.81.4

Culture

French

Period

19th century

Classification

Prints

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
William H. Schab Gallery, New York; Arthur Ross Foundation, New York, to 2012; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Suzanne Boorsch et al., Meant to Be Shared: The Arthur Ross Collection of European Prints (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2015), 75, 140, pl. 58, fig. 3
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

lithographs

Edition

144/240

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