- Title Information
- Title
- abbé Faria
- Non Sort
- L'
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Gavarni, Paul
- Name Part:
Date
- 1804-1866
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- artist
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Pardinel
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- engraver
- Name:
Corporate
- Name Part
- Bureau de l'Écho des feuilletons
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- publisher
- Type of Resource
- still image
- Genre (aat)
- engravings (prints)
- Origin Information
- Place
- Place Term:
Code (MARC Country Code)
- fr
- Place Term:
Text
- Paris
- Publisher
- Bureau de l'Écho des feuilletons
- Date Issued
(encoding="w3cdtf", keyDate="yes")
- 1850
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- fre
- Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 engraving; 24.3 x 15.2 cm.
- digitalOrigin
- reformatted digital
- Abstract
- Engraving by Pardinel after Gavarni from Le comte de Monte-Cristo / par M. Alexandre Dumas. Illustrates an early episode in the novel: next to Edmond Dantès prison cell, lives another prisoner by the name of Faria, nicknamed "l'abbé fou" (the mad priest). when th prison inspector comes to visit him, he is sitting in a circle sketched on the floor, and he is busy drawing geometrical figures around him. His obsession for geometry and mathematical problems, in conjunction with his solitude and the incomprehension he meets in others, makes him a figure of melencolia imaginativa, a creative melancholia that Dantès will later recognize and value. What is mistaken for madness by the prison staff is in fact a lucidity that Dantès will not fail to see.
- Related Item:
Host
(displayLabel="Published in:")
- Title Information
- Title
- comte de Monte-Cristo
- Non Sort
- Le
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Dumas, Alexandre
- Name Part:
Date
- 1802-1870
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- creator
- Related Item:
Host
(displayLabel="Collection:")
- Title Information
- Title
- Paris: Capital of the 19th Century
- Identifier:
COLID
- 6
- Identifier:
URI
- http://dl.lib.brown.edu/paris
- Identifier:
METSID
- 1224697846656250
- Access Condition:
rights statement
(href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/")
- No Copyright - United States
- Access Condition:
restriction on access
- Collection is open for research.
- Subject
(displayLabel="Thematic Category")
- Topic
- Art
- Topic
- Prints
- Subject
(displayLabel="Historical Period")
- Topic
- 1848-1852 (The Second Republic)
- Subject
(displayLabel="Thematic Category")
- Topic
- Literature