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Le feu follet
- Title
- Le feu follet [graphic] / Penguilly 1857 ; Metzmacher sc.
- Author
- Metzmacher, Pierre Guillaume, 1815-
- Publication
- Paris : L'Artiste, 1857?
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Penguilly L'Haridon, O. (Octave), 1811-1870.
- Description
- 1 print : etching, b&w; 20 x 29 cm., plate mark 20 x 26 cm., on mount 28 x 38 cm.
- Summary
- Back view of a young woman, nude except for a flimsy skirt suggestive of a dancer's tutu, who stands in a dance-like pose gazing at a mysterious flamelike object, the ignis fatuus or will o'the wisp of the title. She is observed by two demonic figures with skull-like heads.
- Uniform Title
- Artiste.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Etchings.
- Note
- Imp. F. Chardon, A[in]é.
- Caption title.
- Indexed In (note)
- Béraldi, Henri, Les graveurs du XIX siècle: guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes, Paris, L. Conquet, 1885-1892
- Biography (note)
- Reproductive print after a painting by Octave Penguilly-L'haridon, possibly his La danseuse et le feu follet. He exhibited his paintings at the Paris Salon between 1835-1870.
- The illustrated journal L'Artiste was published weekly in Paris from 1831 to 1904.
- Call Number
- *MGZFX Met P Feu 1
- OCLC
- 825554110
- Author
- Metzmacher, Pierre Guillaume, 1815- Engraver
- Title
- Le feu follet [graphic] / Penguilly 1857 ; Metzmacher sc.
- Imprint
- Paris : L'Artiste, 1857?
- Indexed In:
- Béraldi, Henri, Les graveurs du XIX siècle: guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes, Paris, L. Conquet, 1885-1892, entry on Metzmacher, Pierre, vol. 10, p. 54.
- Biography
- Reproductive print after a painting by Octave Penguilly-L'haridon, possibly his La danseuse et le feu follet. He exhibited his paintings at the Paris Salon between 1835-1870.The illustrated journal L'Artiste was published weekly in Paris from 1831 to 1904.
- Local Note
- Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Penguilly L'Haridon, O. (Octave), 1811-1870. Artist
- Added Title
- Artiste.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZFX Met P Feu 1