The Titan, in 1884 (oil on wood)

Le Titan; Modèle pour le frontispice du tome I de "La Légende des siècle" de l'"Edition Nationale", Paris, Lemonnyer et Testard (Subtitle) Cabanel, Alexandre Illustration of Victor Hugo's poem "Le Titan", written in 1875, from "La Légende des siècles", the program of which is given by the last lines of the poem inscribed at the bottom of the painting: it concerns the appearance of the Titan on Olympus, revealing to the gods the existence of a single god:"Then the titan, grave, haughty, bearing the marks of the thunders so many times tried upon him,Having the immense aspect of the thunderstruck peaksAnd the sublime deformity of the rubble,Stared fixedly at the somber OlympiansStupied on their summit at the bottom of the blue ether,And cried out to them, terrible: O gods, he is a God! " Signature - Bottom right "ALEX. CABANEL. 1884" Handwritten inscription - Bottom: "Le Titan""Having the immense aspect of the forudroyed summitsAnd the sublime deformity of the rubbleStared fixedly at the somber OlympiansStupied on their summit at the bottom of the blue etherAnd shouted at them, terrible: O gods, he is a God!""Victor Hugo ; Label - "387 Stock number: 233