Sale 218 Lot 132

OURIKA: SCENE FROM MADAME DE DURAS'S NOVEL, AFTER BARON GERARD, ENGRAVED BY ALFRED JOHANNOT 19th century French steel/copper engraving by Alfred Johannot after Baron François Gerard, depicting the climactic scene from Claire de Duras's landmark 1823 novella Ourika; the title character, now a cloistered nun, recounting her tragic life story to a visiting doctor within a convent garden. As an illustration of one of the earliest and most influential literary depictions of a Black woman's interior life in European fiction, this print carries both artistic and cultural-historical significance. Unframed. Image: 8 x 6 inches; sheet: 17 x 12 inches
$120-160