Le Nebuleuse

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

1875/80

Odilon Redon
French, 1840-1916

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Odilon Redon
Title: Le Nebuleuse
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1875–1880
Medium: Two types of charcoal with stumping, scraping, erasing and burnishing, on ivory wove paper (discolored to cream)
Inscriptions: Signed "Odilon Redon"
Dimensions: 52.6 × 37.5 cm (20 3/4 × 14 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: David Adler Collection
Reference Number: 1950.1424
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Klaus Berger, Odilon Redon: Fantasy and Colour (New York, 1965), p. 233, no. 706 (ill.).
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the 19th Century (Chicago, 1979), p. 78, no. 4D6.
Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon: Catalogue Raisonné de l’Oeuvre Peint et Dessiné 2 (Paris, 1994), p. 157, no. 1061.

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Exhibition of 19 charcoals owned by Jean Goriany [or Henri Petiet] made for Flaubert’s The Temptation of Saint Anthony,” August, 1941.
Lugano, Switzerland, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, “Odilon Redon, La Nature de l’Invisible,” September 7-November 17, 1996, cat. 27.

Ambroise Vollard (1867-1939), Paris [according to Wildenstein 1992]. Henri Petiet (1894-1980), Paris, by March 1940 [according to Wildenstein 1992]; sold to the Art Institute, 1950.

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