La Peri (Mythological Subject)

Provenance

Sold by the artist to A. Caubert, July 20, 1866 [Paris 1998]. Robert Rolland [Paris 1998]. Sold by Hector Brame, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1973.

La Peri (Mythological Subject)

Gustave Moreau

1865

Accession Number

89157

Medium

Graphite, with brush and black ink, gray wash, and touches of gold metallic paint, heightened with traces of white gouache, on cream wove tracing paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

Dimensions

35.7 × 25.5 cm (14 1/16 × 10 1/16 in.)

Classification

graphite

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Prints and Drawings Department Purchase Fund