Frontispiece for Stéphane Mallarmé
Félicien ROPS
(Belgian, 1833-1898)
Frontispiece for Stéphane Mallarmé
Date1899
Mediumetching
DimensionsOverall: 17 3/4 x 10 3/4 in. (45.1 x 27.3 cm)
ClassificationPRINTS
Credit LineSBMA, Gift of Jane and Michael G. Wilson
Object number1996.12.9
Collection
- 19th century French
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"Who, in the blissful dreams of my happy childhood / Used to hover above me sprinkling from her gentle hands / Snow-white clusters of perfumed stars"
—Stéphane Mallarmé, "L’apparition," Les poésies
Rops created this frontispiece image for Stéphane Mallarmé’s publication, Les poésies (1899), the poet’s own selection of his most significant verses to date. A seated figure in Rops’ frontispiece receives inspiration from a celestial source, beaming down to a harp-like instrument held with outstretched arms.
