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Henri Fantin-Latour

Rinaldo, ca. 1877-78

Description

Maker

Title

Rinaldo

Year

ca. 1877-78

Medium

Black lithographic crayon with scraping

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Dimensions

40.6 x 49.5 cm (16 x 19 1/2 inches) (inside mat)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Incised signature at ll: Fantin; inscribed in black crayon, lc: Rinaldo; inscribed in black crayon, uc: Johannes Brahms; inscribed in graphite, ur: Fevrier -78

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke

Object Number

29.284

Projects & Publications

Publications

Selection V

French Watercolors and Drawings, ca. 1800-1910

The Academic Tradition

An Exhibition of Nineteenth-Century French Drawings Arranged by the Indiana University Art Museum

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

French Drawings in the Time of Degas

August 19, 2005 - January 22, 2006

Fantin-Latour met Degas shortly after Degas’s return to Paris from Italy in 1859, and they became lifelong friends and colleagues. Fantin-Latour was among the artists and writers who congregated for lively debates at the Café Guerbois.

Fantin-Latour was drawn to the idea of capturing musical themes in visual terms. Rinaldo was inspired by an 1868 Brahms cantata for male chorus and orchestra whose text was derived from Goethe’s translation of Tasso’s epic poem of 1581 about the First Crusade, Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Liberated). In RISD’s drawing, the fictional Christian knight Rinaldo renounces the Saracen sorceress Armida and leaves her enchanted island to rejoin his troops.

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