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Introduction
Works of art currently included in the collection

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Last update 3 May 2013

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Introduction

Berlioz and his music inspired many contemporary artists, especially painters and cartoonists. Elsewhere on this site we have created a page which includes a selection of Berlioz cartoons. Here you will find a collection of paintings, lithographs and other works of art. In these genres, pride of place goes to the French artist Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904), some of whose works inaugurated this collection.

The idea of paying homage to Berlioz through his paintings came to Fantin-Latour after attending a performance of Roméo et Juliette on 5 December 1875. His first project, which was realised first as a sketch, then a lithograph and finally a painting, was entitled L’Anniversaire. Souvenir du 5 décembre 1875 [The Anniversary. Memories of the 5th December 1875].

Later he created 14 lithographs specifically for the monumental biography of Berlioz that his distinguished friend Adolph Jullien published in 1888: Hector Berlioz, sa vie et ses œuvres (Paris, Librarie de l’art), with initially 30 copies of the print run. The subjects of these lithographs were various works of Berlioz. Fantin-Latour created other paintings and lithographs with Berlioz’s musical output as their subject. 

Marc Chagall’s famous painting on the ceiling of the Opéra Garnier in Paris (known as Chagall’s Ceiling) was inspired by nine musical works: Mozart’s Magic Flute, Berlioz’s dramatic symphony Roméo et Juliette, Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé, Stravinsky’s Fire Bird, Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, Adam’s Giselle and Moussorgsky’s Boris Godounov. We have included on this page three images of the painting. 

Also included in these pages are works by Marcella Acone, Michel Ayrton, Barbizet, Biro, Louis Boulanger, Eugène Delacroix, David Chirko, Julio de Diego, Henri Ding, Harvey Dunn, Haydn Greenway, Célestin Nanteuil, Alfred Roll, Sorrieu, G. Staal, and Maurice Utrillo, and images from a 1942 film by Christian-Jaque. 

Works of art currently included in the collection:

Henri Fantin-Latour

    Lithographs (1)

    Lithographs (2)

    Lithographs (3)

    Lithographs (4)

Lithographs by other artists

    Lithographs (1)

    Lithographs (2)

Marc Chagall and Alfred Roll

    Roméo et Juliette

    Symphonie fantastique

Henry Ding’s sculpture

    La Muse de Berlioz

Michael Ayrton’s drawings

    Lélio, Idée fixe


Maurice Utrillo’s paintings

    Berlioz’s home in Montmartre


Eugène Delacroix’s painting  

    Berlioz’s home in Montmartre


Haydn Greenway’s paintings

    La Damnation de Faust

    Harold en Italie

    Metamorphosis

    Requiem (variations on the same theme)

    Les Troyens

    Symphonie funèbre et triompale

    Le spectre de la rose

    Te Deum

    Symphonie fantastique 

    Sir Colin Davis and Berlioz  

    A tribute to Sir Colin Davis  NEW

    Berlioz and Paganini  


Julio de Diego and Harvey Dunn

    Symphonie fantastique


Drawings by Marcella Acone

    Young Berlioz and his career (1)

    Young Berlioz and his career (2)

    Young Berlioz and his career (3)  

    Young Berlioz : Drawings to mark Berlioz’s 207th birthday 

    Young Berlioz : Drawing to mark Berlioz’s 209th birthday 

    Symphonie fantastique

    La Damnation de Faust


Paintings by David Chirko

    The Opening Of Misty Berlioz  

    Berlioz Orchestral Splash  


Paintings by Albert Martin
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    Harold en Italie 


Pencil drawing by David Stamhuis  

    Berlioz, after Michael Leonard 


Berlioz on the screen

    La Symphonie Fantastique  


Berlioz on book covers 

    Frank W Kenyon’s Passionate Rebel

    David Cairns’ translation of the Mémoires (1974 edition)

    David Cairns’ translation of the Mémoires (1990 edition)

The Hector Berlioz Website was created by Monir Tayeb and Michel Austin on 18 July 1997;
The Berlioz-inspired works of art pages created on 7 December 2003; many additions made since.

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