Description
Unframed, sheet 44,7 x 26,1 cm, image 29,8 x 11,5 cm
Title page, created by Maurice Denis, for „La damoiselle élue“,
a cantata, composed by Claude Debussy, based on a poem by
Dante Gabriel Rosetti (The Blessed Damozel), premiered in Paris
in 1893.
Marks
Monogrammed on the stone, image lower right: „MAVD“,
monogram on the plate lower right: „CD“ (Claude Debussy),
printed text on plate: „La damoiselle élue“
Provenance
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg
Public collections
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Museum of
Fine Arts, Houston
Literature
Pierre Cailler, catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre gravé et
lithographié de Maurice Denis, 2000, pag. 32; Jean-Paul Boullion,
Maurice Denis, 1993, pag. 43; Anisabelle Berès et Michel Arveiller,
Les peintres graveurs, 1890 - 1900, 2002, No. 76; Maurice Denis:
earthly paradise (1870 - 1943), 2006, pag. 56 - 57.