Art, literature & history
Allegory
1899
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- color lithograph on wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 26.6 x 41 cm (10 1/2 x 16 1/8 in.); Sheet: 41 x 53 cm (16 1/8 x 20 7/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2021.170.2
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Maurice Denis. Allegory. Maurice Denis; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Purchase from the Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Annuity Trust and partial gift of Stephen Dull. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
Allegory — Maurice Denis. 1899.
Medium: color lithograph on wove paper. Dimensions: Image: 26.6 x 41 cm (10 1/2 x 16 1/8 in.); Sheet: 41 x 53 cm (16 1/8 x 20 7/8 in.).
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Maurice Denis belonged to the Nabis, a group of artists who came together in 1889 to pursue a radical new style informed by subjective experience and emotion. This print is from a series in which Denis explored his devotion to his wife, Marthe, by depicting her in a variety of settings alongside titles drawn from his own journal. The vague but evocative images were meant to encourage the viewer to draw connections to the theme and meditate on its meaning.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.