The Capture of Troy: Act III, The Apparition of Hector, from Hector Berlioz's Opera "The Capture of Troy (1855-58)"
Medium
Lithograph in black with scraping on stone, on grayish-ivory chine laid down on thick ivory wove paper
Dimensions
243 × 164 mm (image); 233.5 × 156 mm (sheet); 310 × 221 mm (sheet)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
44130
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 ...