Le Roman de la momie précédé de trois contes antiques Une Nuit de Cléopâtre, Le Roi Candaule, Arria Marcella

In these four tragic love stories, Gautier transports the reader back in time and delivers his “inner vision” of antiquity in virtuosic “penned paintings” filled with poetic fantasy. Adolphe Boschot illuminates the influences at work, from ancient authors to orientalist painters.