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OriginalCarlos Schwabe's illustration for Vincent d'Indy's Fervaal.
Reason
A particularly beautiful photomechanical print (Which I presume is something like a photochrom) for a rather obscure opera. The paper had clearly discoloured, so I nudged it back towards original colours a bit. There's a rather art deco looking poster based on it as well, but this has far nicer colour and linework. It shows him climbing a mountain with the corpse of his beloved to disappear into an ideal sunrise as the old gods and they that worshipped them fade out of existence with the dawn of Christianity. It was the sort of stuff that was kind of a thing for a while around 1895 or so. You also get Elgar's "Scenes from The Saga of King Olaf" around then, for instance, before the rise of the Verisimo and modernist movements.
Articles in which this image appears
Fervaal, +2
FP category for this image
WP:FP/THEATRE
Creator
Carlos Schwabe (credited as Carloz Schwabe for reasons best known to himself - it's in the signature as well), restored by Adam Cuerden

Promoted File:Carloz Schwabe - Vincent d'Indy's Fervaal.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 11:34, 24 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]