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Rue de la Vieille lanterne (The Suicide of Gérard de Nerval)

Gustave Doré

National Gallery of Art

This print features an underground environment with skeletal and ghostly figures. Near the bottom-right corner of the print, a man appears to slump against a wall. A pale ghost seems to emerge from him. Above the ghost, a skeleton stands on the top of a set of stairs, seeming to blow a long trumpet. Across the top of the scene is an enormous group of pale, ghostly figures in a dreamlike haze.

Artwork Details

Date
1855
Medium
lithograph on chine collé on wove paper
Dimensions
4689 × 6757 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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