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Description: | RU s. in pencil b.r. "H. Fantin"; inscr. in pencil t.r. "Wagner"; inscr. printed b.c. "Imp Lemercier & Cie, Paris"; inscr. in pencil b.l. "37"; inscr in pencil b.r. "31 [] / Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens / 2nd St 25 proofs" CRE FANTIN-LATOUR, Henri; (French; 1836-1904) PRINT Lemercier This lithograph was inspired by Act III Scene I of Richard Wagner's opera Die Goetterdoemmerung (The Twilight of the Gods). Fantin, a great admirer of the German composer, had attended the first Bayreuth festival and over the next 23 years devoted 85 lithographs to subjects taken from Wagner's music. Here on the left of the river bank, Siegfried is advancing, while the 3 naked daughters of the river are gazing up to him. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | FIGURE : RHINE : MUSIC : NUDE : RIVER : MYTHOLOGY : OPERA : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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