Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé Artist: Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903)

1891

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room

All of the portraits in the Arthur Ross Collection are of artists except for this one by Paul Gauguin, which depicts the Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé, translator of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven. The portrait was made in 1891, nearly two decades after Mallarmé’s first publication of Poe translations. Nevertheless, Mallarmé’s continued association with The Raven—indeed, almost an implied merging of his identity with that of the narrator of the poem—is made evident by the presence of the bird ominously looming over the poet’s head.

Medium

Etching and drypoint with engraving

Dimensions

platemark: 7 3/16 × 5 5/8 in. (18.3 × 14.3 cm)
framed: 24 1/2 × 19 1/2 × 1 in. (62.2 × 49.5 × 2.5 cm)

Credit Line

The Arthur Ross Collection

Accession Number

2012.159.90

Geography

Made in France

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), 144, pl. 62
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

drypoints, etchings, portraits

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