![]() ![]() In fact, when Gabriel Rossetti, member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and inexplicably attractive ladies’ man, got his hands on a copy of Mallarmé and Manet’s The Raven, he hated it. They are, in other words, very Manet-esque, and not at all what readers today might expect from The Raven. His illustrations are stark, lacking in any sense of sentiment or narrative. Manet was buds with Stéphane Mallarmé and provided four illustrations for Mallarmé’s 1875 translation of The Raven. One of the first notable artists to tackle illustrations for The Raven was Edouard Manet, 19th-century flâneur, best frenemies with Degas, and modern painter infamous for such works as Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe and Olympia. “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,” The Raven, Edouard Manet, 1875. ![]()
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