Félicien Champsaur's "Deuils", ca. 1895

  • E. A. Coulon, French

Lithograph printed in black ink on japan paper

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

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. Walker

75.129.61

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

Stamp, verso: 49

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

Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. Walker

1975-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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.