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Faust and Mephistopheles by Odilon Redon — VisualArtsDB

Faust and Mephistopheles

Faust and Mephistopheles

1880

Medium: Various charcoals, with wiping, stumping, erasing, and incising, on cream wove paper altered to a golden tone
Dimensions: 40 × 32 cm (15 3/4 × 12 5/8 in.)
Genre: charcoal
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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wipingerasingdrawings (visual works)prints and drawingpaperstumpingincisingdrawing techniquespaper (fiber product)wove papercharcoal

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