Félicien Champsaur's "Deuils"

ca. 1895

E. A. Coulon French

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About the Artwork

Title Félicien Champsaur's "Deuils"

Artwork Date ca. 1895

Artist E. A. Coulon

Life Dates ----------

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

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Medium Lithograph printed in black ink on japan paper

Dimensions Image: 13 5/8 × 9 5/8 inches (34.6 × 24.4 cm) Sheet: 15 × 11 1/8 inches (38.1 × 28.3 cm)

Classification Prints

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. Walker

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 75.129.61

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Signed Signed, on stone, lower left: [artist's monogram]

Inscriptions Inscribed, on stone, lower left of image, the poem "Deuils" by Félicien Champsaur: Deuils. || Idéal, toi qui nous exhortes: | Celles qui croyaient au bonheur, | à l'amour, dans le deshonneur | sont mortes. || Les fous, les redresseurs de torts, | Ceux qui pourchassaient dans le monde | le traître noir, le lâche immonde | sont morts. || Lui dispersera les escortes | de plaisirs, de dérisions ? | Les charmantes illusions | sont mortes. || Plus l'amoureux, puisque les forts, | les soldats qu'un de voir enlève, | les poètes, princes du Rêve, | sont morts. || La nuit tranquille ouvre ses portes. | Les jeunes héros glorieux | sont morts, les vierges aux doux yeux | sont mortes. || Félicien Champsaur [signature, underscored] [Translated from French: Mournings. || Ideal, you who we exhort: | Those who believed in happiness, | in love, in dishonor | are dead. || Madmen, rectifiers of wrongs, | Those who hunt down in the world | the black traitor, the filthy coward | are dead. || Shall he disperse the protectors | of pleasures, of derisions ? | The charming illusions | are dead. || the lover, as the strong, | the soldiers that duty removed, | the poets, princes du Dreams, | are dead. || The quiet night opens its doors. | The young glorious heros | are dead, the gentle-eyed virgins | are dead.] Inscribed, lower left: 114-6-8

Marks Stamp, verso: 49

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. Walker;
1975-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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E. A. Coulon, Félicien Champsaur's "Deuils", ca. 1895, lithograph printed in black ink on japan paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. Walker, 75.129.61.