Under the Lamp ("Once upon a midnight dreary..."), from The Raven (Le Corbeau)

Prints and Drawings

1875

Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)
written by Edgar Allan Poe (American, 1809-1849)
translated and produced by Stéphane Mallarmé (French, 1842-1898)
printed by Lefman et Cie. (French, 19th century)
published by Richard Lesclide (French, 1825-1892)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Édouard Manet
Title: Under the Lamp ("Once upon a midnight dreary..."), from The Raven (Le Corbeau)
Origin: France
Date: 1875
Medium: Transfer lithograph in black on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, in plate, lower left, below image: "E. M."
Dimensions: 273 × 380 mm (image); 360 × 548 (sheet)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg in memory of Bessie Kisloff Braude, Esq.
Reference Number: 2014.265.3
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From the artist to Louis de Fourcaud (1851–1914) [inscription from Manet on title page of series]; sold, at his estate sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, March 29, 1917, no 51. Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Estate [stamp (not in Lugt), verso, in red ink].

Harris 83b only state

Moreau-Nélaton 91 only state

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