Debut of the Valkyrie
Medium
Lithograph in black with scraping on stone on thick ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 23.1 × 31.1 cm (9 1/8 × 12 1/4 in.); Sheet: 33.4 × 45 cm (13 3/16 × 17 3/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
44029
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
In the second musical drama of The Ring, Siegmund stumbles into the hunting cottage of the fierce Hunding. Here, Sieglinde, the wife of Hunding, offers her brother Siegmund a drink. The siblings, the offspring of Wotan and a she-wolf, were separated in their childhood, and do not recognize one another. Later in the opera, Hunding returns home and angrily promises to wage battle with Siegmund the following day and then departs. Siegmund then proclaims his romantic love for Sieglinde, removes Wota...
About the Artist
Henri Fantin-Latour · 1836–1904
Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour was born on January 14, 1836, in Grenoble, France, to portrait painter Théodore Fantin-Latour, who gave him his earliest drawing lessons. The family relocated to Paris in 1841, where in 1850, at age 14, he enrolled in the École de Dessin, studying under Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran, whose innovative memory-based method of drawing from observation profoundly ...