Romeo and Juliet: Confiding in the Night
<p>Henri Fantin-Latour, adapting a scene from Hector Berlioz’s 1839 dramatic symphony <em>Roméo et Juliette</em>, showed the young Juliette, with her gaze cast skyward and her hand placed over her heart, as she stands at her balcony awaiting her lover, Roméo. This evanescent lithograph uses deep shadows and blurred, murky line work to heighten the sense of anticipation the viewer feels along with Juliette.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1888
- Dimensions
- Image: 22.6 × 15.2 cm (8 15/16 × 6 in.); Sheet: 30.8 × 21.3 cm (12 3/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Henri Fantin-Latour
Artist
Painting
Ignace Henri Jean Theodore Fantin-Latour was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers.
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- Henri Fantin-Latour
- Year
- 1888
- Dimensions
- Image: 22.6 × 15.2 cm (8 15/16 × 6 in.); Sheet: 30.8 × 21.3 cm (12 3/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1888-063580
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- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
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