Couple (an illustration from Candide)

Ref. Image 2019.0144

Ref. Image 2019.0144

Name/Title

Couple (an illustration from Candide)

Entry/Object ID

2019.0144

Type of Print

Lithograph

Made/Created

Artist

Clave, Antoni

Date made

1947

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2024 post: Throughout 2024, we're looking back at the 100 year history of art at the Mulvane. This 1947 print is inspired by "Candide" (1759), a tragicomic satire by French philosopher Voltaire. Using expressive, gestural lines, artist Antoin Clave evokes an 18th-century couple, likely the novel's naïve protagonist Candide and his ill-fated romantic interest, Cunégonde.