Poèmes de Charles d'Orléans
Henri Matisse, Poèmes de Charles d'Orléans, 1950, illustrated book with 54 color lithographs on Arches paper with lithographed text printed in black; unbound, housed in paper folder and paper-covered cardboard box, Gift of Alvin H. Davis, © artist or other rights holder, 2008.3
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- Title
Poèmes de Charles d'Orléans
- Related Titles
display title: Poèmes de Charles D'Orléans
- Artist
- Related People
print publisher: Ténade, Paris (French, active 20th century)
- Date
1950
- Medium
illustrated book with 54 color lithographs on Arches paper with lithographed text printed in black; unbound, housed in paper folder and paper-covered cardboard box
- Edition
832/1200
- Catalogue Raisonné
Garnaud 28
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
folio: 16 1/4 in x 10 13/16 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
watermark: ARCHES
signature: H Matisse, graphite, colophon, lower center
inscription: Poèms de / Charles / d'Orleans / Manuscrits et / illustrés par / Henri Matisse/ Tériade Editeur, inscribed in stone, Title page
inscription: Henri Matisse 3/43, inscribed in stone, Frontispiece
- Collection Area
Graphic Arts
- Category
Books, Portfolios, and Manuscripts
Prints
- Object Type
book
intaglio print
- Culture
French
- Credit Line
Gift of Alvin H. Davis
- Accession Number
2008.3
- Copyright
© artist or other rights holder
- Terms
Henri Matisse often turned to poetry for artistic inspiration, and he illustrated a number of livres d’artistes of verse, from the medieval to the modern. To illustrate the work of Charles d’Orléans (1391-1465), a member of the royal family and the father of French lyric poetry of courtly love, Matisse used a highly decorative style: he wrote the poems out in his own florid handwriting and used recurrent scrolls, garlands, and fleur-de-lis.
- Exhibitions
2013 Artist & Book: 100 Years Portland Art Museum
