Carlos Schwabe
Spleen and Ideal
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Framed size: 9 × 14 in
Solid wood frame
Exhibition canvas
Removable acrylic glass
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This is a framed canvas reproduction of a 1907 painting by Carlos Schwabe.
History & Materials
The story
“Spleen et Idéal” is the first and longest section of Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal, in which the poet swings between longing for an ideal and spleen, a heavy, deadening melancholy. Schwabe had illustrated an edition of the book in 1900.
The original
Oil on canvas.
146 × 97 cm.
On deposit at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels.
The reproduction
Printed with archival pigment inks on Epson Exhibition Canvas Matte.
Narrow solid-wood frame in warm gold tones with a fine chevron pattern.
Print size: approx. 7 × 12 in.
Framed size: 9 × 14 in.