Henri Fantin-Latour
French, 1836-1904
Romeo and Juliet: Confiding in the Night
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Henri Fantin-Latour
French, 1836-19041888
Romeo and Juliet: Confiding in the Night
Henri Fantin-Latour French, 1836-1904 →lithographprint
Date
1888
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory China paper laid down on white wove paper
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.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
The Charles Deering Collection
Henri Fantin-Latour, adapting a scene from Hector Berlioz’s 1839 dramatic symphony Roméo et Juliette, 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.
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