Edmund DulacRegno Unito, 1882–1953The Entomologist's Dream
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This work is an illustration for Le Papillon Rouge (the red butterfly) by Gerard d’Houville, a tragic love story published in the Christmas 1909 edition of the French news and art magazine L’Illustration. The tale explores the supernatural potential of dreams and the hallucinatory power of a moonlit night. An entomologist is driven mad by his failure to meet the demands of his lady for a blood red butterfly. After a lifetime of searching he ransacks his entire butterfly collection in the throes of nightime delirium. The insects magically awaken and fly from their cases into the night. The entomologist is found dead in the morning, heartbroken.
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- E.655-1922
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