Cleveland Museum of Art
Perched upon a Bust of Pallas
Édouard Manet
- Date
- 1875
- Medium
- lithograph
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
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 livres d’artistes —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.
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