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Guardian Spirit of the Waters

A work made of various charcoals, with touches of black chalk, stumping, erasing, incising, and subtractive sponge work, heightened with traces of white chalk, on cream wove paper altered to a golden tone.
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  • A work made of various charcoals, with touches of black chalk, stumping, erasing, incising, and subtractive sponge work, heightened with traces of white chalk, on cream wove paper altered to a golden tone.

Date:

1878

Artist:

Odilon Redon
French, 1840-1916

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Odilon Redon

Title

Guardian Spirit of the Waters

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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1878

Medium

Various charcoals, with touches of black chalk, stumping, erasing, incising, and subtractive sponge work, heightened with traces of white chalk, on cream wove paper altered to a golden tone

Inscriptions

Signed lower left, in black chalk: "OD.R."

Dimensions

46.6 × 37.6 cm (18 3/8 × 14 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

David Adler Collection

Reference Number

1950.1428

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