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Edouard Manet created this lithograph for his friend Stephane Mallarmé’s 1875 French translation of American writer Edgar Allan Poe’s classic poem “The Raven” (1845) about a man mourning his deceased love who is visited by a raven that repeatedly cries, “Nevermore.” Mallarmé’s edition is considered one of the first modern <em>livres d’artistes</em>—books created specifically as works of visual art. Manet created four full-page illustrations, including the scene in which the raven stares at the narrator from the top of the bust of the goddess Athena, and a raven head design used on the book’s cover and on its advertising poster.
France, 19th century
lithograph
Image: 17 x 15.5 cm (6 11/16 x 6 1/8 in.); Sheet: 32.5 x 24.7 cm (12 13/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund
86 3/4 x 40 1/4 x 20 1/4 in. (220.3 x 102.2 x 51.4 cm)
medium: Walnut , white pine, burl walnut veneers, mahogany; brass
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 62.171.12 1962
Bequest of Cecile L. Mayer, 1962
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) to Meiji period (1868–1912)
bamboo shaft tipped with metal point and heeled with feathers
Average: 87.7 cm (34 1/2 in.)
Gift of George Trumbull Ladd
Syria, Dura-Europos
wool: 2-2 twill
Average: 14.7 x 11.5 cm (5 13/16 x 4 1/2 in.)
Gift of Yale University, Gallery of Fine Arts
Epitrachelia are liturgical stoles worn only by priests and bishops. This one was specially made for a metropolitan of Cyzicus in Asia Minor. Rather than with the more usual images of saints (cf. Walters 83.315), it is embroidered with illustrations of the 24 strophes of the Akathist, a hymn in praise of the Virgin Mary. The beginning of each strophe is inscribed under the respective scene.
Orthodox Eastern
H: 61 13/16 in. (157 cm)
medium: pink silk, silk and silver thread
style: Post-Byzantine
culture: Orthodox Eastern
dynasty: Ottoman Dynasty
reign: Mohammed IV (1648-1687)
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.