Once Upon a Midnight Dreary. Illustration to The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

Series/Portfolio:: The Raven

Artist:: Édouard Manet (French, Paris 1832–1883 Paris)

Author:: Edgar Allan Poe (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1809–1849 Baltimore, Maryland)

Translator:: Stéphane Mallarmé (French, 1842–1898)

Date:: 1875

Medium:: Lithograph on laid paper

Dimensions:: sheet: 13 3/4 x 21 1/16 in. (35 x 53.5 cm)

Classification:: Prints

Credit Line:: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924

Accession Number:: 24.30.27(2)

Not on view

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," October 20, 2008–January 11, 2009.

Moreau-Nélaton 91, Guérin 86a, Harris 86b

Étienne Moreau-Nélaton Manet graveur et lithographe. Paris, 1906, cat. no. 91.

Marcel Guérin L'Oeuvre gravé de Manet.. Paris, 1944, cat. no. 86a.

Jean C. Harris Edouard Manet: Graphic Works, A Definitive Catalogue Raisonné. New York, 1970, cat. no. 83b.

Juliet Wilson Bareau, Breon Mitchell "Tales of a Raven. The Origins and Fate of Le Corbeau by Mallarmé and Manet." Print Quarterly. vol. 6, London, September 1989.

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Claude Monet (1840–1926)
Couples in Art
Édouard Manet (1832–1883)
Henri Matisse (1869–1954)
Impressionism: Art and Modernity
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)
Lithography in the Nineteenth Century
Nineteenth–Century French Realism
The Print in the Nineteenth Century
The Salon and The Royal Academy