Rêverie dans la nuit (Evening Reverie)
1895
Medium
lithograph in gray on heavy japan paper
Dimensions
image: 30.5 x 21.2 cm (12 x 8 3/8 in.) sheet: 38.1 x 28.1 cm (15 x 11 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Virginia and Ira Jackson Collection, gift in memory of Virginia H. Jackson
Accession Number
1996.151.80
About the Artist
Alphonse Osbert
Alphonse Osbert (1857–1939) was a French Symbolist painter whose ethereal visions of ghostlike muses in mysterious nocturnal landscapes made him one of the movement's most distinctive voices. Born in Paris on March 23, 1857, Osbert received rigorous academic training at the École des Beaux-Arts under Henri Lehmann, Fernand Cormon, and Léon Bonnat. His early work reflected his passion for Spanish O...