Le chat noir
Print
ca. 1860-1861 (made)
ca. 1860-1861 (made)
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Alphonse Legros made a series of etchings illustrating the macabre stories of the American writer Edgar Allan Poe, translated into French by Charles Baudelaire in the mid 1850s. 'Le chat noir' ('The Black Cat') is the story of a murdered girl whose body is bricked up inside a wall. With vigourous, almost crude lines Legros represents the awful climax of the story: the discovery of the corpse when the mewing of a cat, also interred, reveals its presence.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Etching |
| Brief description | Alphonse Legros, 'Le chat noir' ('The black cat'), illustration to Edgar Allan Poe, ca.1860-61, etching |
| Physical description | Etching showing six men on the left of the composition reacting in horror to the emergence of the corpse of a young woman from a wall on the far right with a cat standing on its head. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Constantine Alexander Ionides |
| Object history | Bequeathed by C.A. Ionides, 1900 |
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| Literary reference | Illustration to Edgar Allan Poe, 'Le chat noir' or 'The Black Cat' |
| Summary | Alphonse Legros made a series of etchings illustrating the macabre stories of the American writer Edgar Allan Poe, translated into French by Charles Baudelaire in the mid 1850s. 'Le chat noir' ('The Black Cat') is the story of a murdered girl whose body is bricked up inside a wall. With vigourous, almost crude lines Legros represents the awful climax of the story: the discovery of the corpse when the mewing of a cat, also interred, reveals its presence. |
| Bibliographic reference | Manet : Inventeur du moderne, Paris : Gallimard, 2011
no.116 |
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| Accession number | CAI.180 |
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| Record created | March 31, 2008 |
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