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Fairy of the Alps
About the Artwork
Henri Fantin-Latour’s drawings featured imaginative compositions, often inspired by the music of contemporary German composers. This sheet relates to the symphonic work Manfred by Robert Schumann (1848), a drama in which Manfred encounters apparitions while mourning his lost lover. Fantin used layers of dark charcoal to evoke the emotional tenor of his subject and to translate the experience of listening to Schumann’s music using a visual medium.
Inscriptions
signed, upper right, in charcoal: Fantin
Provenance
by 1901-1937: Madame Albert Esnault-Pelterie, Paris 1937: (her sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 4, 1937, no. 11) 2017: (sale, De Baecque et Associés, Paris, June 19, 2017, no. 230) 2017-2019: (Jill Newhouse, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) 2019-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-June 11, 2023).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836–1904)
- Date
- c. 1885
- Medium
- charcoal with white chalk and black chalk, with framing lines in black crayon and squaring marks in graphite, on laid paper discolored to tan
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 62.5 x 46.7 cm (24 5/8 x 18 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Whitehill Art Purchase Endowment Fund
- Accession no.
- 2019.225
More by Henri Fantin-Latour in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00011137
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