Art Institute of Chicago
First Scene of The Rhinegold
Henri Fantin-Latour
- Date
- 1876
- Medium
- Lithograph in black with scraping on stone on grayish-ivory china paper laid down on thick cream wove paper
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
The Rhinegold is the first of four operas that form Richard Wagner's operatic cycle Ring of the Nibelung. In this interpretation of the opera's first scene, three Rhine maidens gracefully dive through the water's currents as they protect their treasure, the gold of the River Rhine. The figure of Alberich, who greedily schemes to steal the Rhine gold, appears ominously in the lower-left corner of the composition.
The authoritative record is held by Art Institute of Chicago. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.
Linked open data
Authority identifiers that link this record into the wider web of cultural data — stable references you can follow to the source.
- Object type
- AAT300041273
Related across collections
Semantically similar works from Art Institute of Chicago and other institutions.
The Elevation of the Host; Initial T: A Putto Between the Sun and the Moon
Getty Museum
The Rhinegold: Scene I, The Rhinemaidens
Art Institute of Chicago
The Tale of Genji
Art Institute of Chicago
Debut of the Valkyrie
Art Institute of Chicago
Six Scenes from the Tale of Genji
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Finale to the Twilight of the Gods
Art Institute of Chicago
The Nativity
Cleveland Museum of Art
End of The Valkyrie
Art Institute of Chicago
To Robert Schumann
Cleveland Museum of Art
Tannhäuser: Venusberg
Art Institute of Chicago
De Aanbidding van de koningen
Rijksmuseum
The bag of gold which he received for the slave girl being stolen in a mosque, the young man of Baghdad tears his cloths and is about to fling himself into the Tigris, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-eighth Night
Cleveland Museum of Art