Frontispiece for 'Les Fleurs du Mal' by Charles Baudelaire

Public Domain

Artist / maker

Félix Bracquemond (etchers)

Date

1861

Period

19th century

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
The first edition of Charles Baudelaire's collection of poems Les Fleurs du Mal was published in 1857. For the second edition, Baudelaire appealed to the graphic artist Félix Bracquemond to design a frontispiece for the collection. However, Baudelaire disapproved of his friend's design and eventually preferred an etching by Félicien Rops.

More about this work

Features
Artist / maker Félix Bracquemond VIAF RKD
Type etching
Category prints (visual works)
Material paper
Dimensions 81 x 50 mm
Location Work currently not on display
Object number 2004-M
Description
Subjects symbolism (artistic concept) , fantastic art
Tags Death (as one of the Four Last Things) Iconclass, plants; vegetation Iconclass, (human) skeleton Iconclass, pointing to the forehead with the index finger Iconclass, historical person (CHARLES BAUDELAIRE) Iconclass, (scenes from) specific works of literature (BAUDELAIRE, Les Fleurs du mal) Iconclass
Linked open data
Data PURL https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2004-M
IIIF manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/5517/manifest.json
LIDO XML https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_lido&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:2004-M
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