The Hector Berlioz Website

Berlioz-inspired works of art : Marc Chagall and Alfred Roll

Chagall, ROLL and Berlioz

Roméo et Juliette (Chagall)

Symphonie fantastique (Roll)

«Plafond de Chagall» – Opéra Garnier, Paris

Installed in 1964 – photo taken in 2001


«Roméo et Juliette»

Artist: Chagall – lithograph in colour
after the painting in Garnier

A reproduction of this lithograph is in our own collection.

«Roméo et Juliette»

Artist: Charles Sorlier – poster based on a
lithograph in colour after Chagall

«La musique fantastique, glorification de Berlioz» – Petit Palais, Paris

Artist: Alfred Roll

« La musique fantastique, glorification de Berlioz » is one of three ceiling paintings by Alfred Roll (Paris, 1846-1919) in the Petit Palais, musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris. Completed in 1914, it was installed in 1920.

We are most grateful to Madame Isabelle Collet, Conservateur en chef at the Petit Palais, musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris, for sending us the above photo that she has taken of Roll’s painting.

© 2007 Isabelle Collet

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