About this Exhibition

Private Proust: Letters and Drawings to Reynaldo Hahn was produced by François Proulx, Lecturer on Comparative Literature at Harvard University and guest curator at Houghton Library. This online exhibition was originally a component of the Proust and the Arts web site, which served as a resource both for students enrolled in "French 165: Marcel Proust" and for guests and attendees of the interdisciplinary conference held at Harvard University April 19-20, 2013.

2. Drawings (1902-1906)

“Christ symbolizes poor sickch Marcel, and the gifts of the Holy Spirit are the treasures of genius and kindness that Reynaldo perpetually breathes into him
(Under Christ’s arm, some pretty book always forgotten by Reynaldo)”   

Marcel Proust, "Jésus Christ et les dons du St Esprit” [n.d.]. b 94M-48 (91), Houghton Library, Harvard University. Gift, Mrs. Bradley Martin, 1994.
Adapted from Émile Mâle, L’art religieux du XIIIe siècle en France. Paris: Armand Colin, 1902. 203 M24ba, Fine Arts Library, Harvard University.