Sieglinde and Siegmund from Act I of "The Valkyrie"

Sieglinde and Siegmund from Act I of "The Valkyrie" by Henri Fantin-Latour

Medium

lithograph

Classification

Print

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of the Estate of John Ellerton Lodge

Accession Number

1964.18.5

About the Artist

Henri Fantin-Latour · 18361904

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 ...

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