Fairy of the Alps
Cleveland Museum of Art

Fairy of the Alps

Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836–1904) · c. 1885

charcoal with white chalk and black chalk, with framing lines in black crayon and squaring marks in graphite, on laid paper discolored to tan
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

This drawing relates to a print of the same year. Fantin used this sheet to work out his composition before completing a drawing on tracing paper, which was then used to transfer the image to a lithographic stone.

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