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Prophète by Odilon Redon — VisualArtsDB

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Prophète

Prophète

Prophète

1860–1916

Medium: Black and brown charcoal with black chalk, stumping, scraping and erasing, on ivory wove paper (discolored to cream)
Dimensions: 51.7 × 37.5 cm (20 3/8 × 14 13/16 in.)
Genre: Charcoal
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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erasingdrawings (visual works)black chalkchalkprints and drawingpaperstumpingdrawing techniquespaper (fiber product)wove paperscrapingcharcoal

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On the Dish, plate ten from In Dreams

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Frontispiece for La tentation de Saint Antoine

Frontispiece for La tentation de Saint Antoine

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And I Saw an Angel Coming Down from Heaven, Having the Key of the Bottomless Pit and a Great Chain in His Hand

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Odilon Redon, 1889

Il y eut peut-etre une vision premiere essayee dans la fleur (There was perhaps a first vision attempted in the flower)

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Precarious Glimmering, a Head Suspended from Infinity, plate 3 of 6

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Bather

Bather

Odilon Redon, 1904