The Anniversary (Homage to Hector Berlioz)
- Medium
- Pastel, with opaque watercolor and scraping, over a lithograph in black ink, on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 62.5 × 51.4 cm (24 5/8 × 20 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- Pastel
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)operas/operettasgraphiteprints and drawingsmenprints and drawingpeoplepastelpastels (crayons)crayonspaper (fiber product)black crayonsscraping
About
Fantin-Latour underwent a striking evolution over the course of his career, starting out as a member of the Realist avant-garde before creating anti-Realist, fantastic compositions in the 1870s. This masterful pastel honoring the late French Romantic composer Hector Berlioz is part of the proto-Symbolist “imaginative projects” developed by Fantin-Latour around 1875.
