The Knight Did Not Die at the Crusade, plate five from Love
1898, published 1899
Medium
Lithograph in peach, pale green, and yellow on light ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 38.5 × 27.6 cm (15 3/16 × 10 7/8 in.); Sheet: 53 × 40.6 cm (20 7/8 × 16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
117211
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
These 12 prints come from Love, a series of color lithographs that form a disjointed narrative about a woman who experiences love, although it is unclear if she is falling in love with a man, nature, or her faith. Each soft and dreamlike image is paired with a caption of fragmented poetry that serves as its title, but these phrases do not directly describe their corresponding images. Maurice Denis, who was also a writer, crafted these puzzling yet evocative captions to add layers of meaning thro...
About the Artist
Maurice Denis · 1870–1943
Maurice Denis (1870–1943) was a French painter, writer, and art theorist who became a founding member and principal theorist of the Nabis, a group of Post-Impressionist artists working in Paris in the 1890s. Born in Granville, Normandy, he studied at the Académie Julian, where he met Paul Sérusier, Pierre Bonnard, and Édouard Vuillard, the future core of the Nabi group. Denis is perhaps best reme...