Styles Genres Museums Artists Support

An open visual arts database with 1,000,000+ artworks, 100,000+ artists, and 1,800+ styles spanning centuries of human creativity.

Browse

Styles
Genres
Museums
Artists
Favorites

Popular Styles

Impressionism
Romanticism
Surrealism
Pop Art
Cubism
Realism

Museums

Art Institute of Chicago
MoMA
Rijksmuseum
Cleveland Museum of Art
The MET
Louvre

VisualArtsDB is free and open for everyone.

Support the project

© 2026 VisualArtsDB

Pious Women by Odilon Redon — VisualArtsDB

Home
Charcoal
Pious Women

Pious Women

Pious Women

1890–1893

Medium: Black chalk and black pastel with black and brown charcoal, stumping and erasing, on ivory wove paper (discolored to cream)
Dimensions: 52.7 × 37.4 cm (20 3/4 × 14 3/4 in.)
Genre: Charcoal
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

Tags

erasingdrawings (visual works)black chalkchalkprints and drawingpastels (crayons)papercrayonsstumpingdrawing techniquespaper (fiber product)wove papercharcoal

More by Odilon Redon

The Haunting (Hantise)

The Haunting (Hantise)

Odilon Redon, 1893

Saint-Antoine...A travers ses longs cheveux qui lui couvraient la figure, j'ai cru reconnaitre Ammonaria (Saint Anthony: "Beneathe her long hair , which covered her face, I thought I recognized Ammonaria)

Saint-Antoine...A travers ses longs cheveux qui lui couvraient la figure, j'ai cru reconnaitre Ammonaria (Saint Anthony: "Beneathe her long hair , which covered her face, I thought I recognized Ammonaria)

Odilon Redon, 1889

Frontispiece for Le mouvement idéaliste en peinture (The Idealistic Movement in Painting) by André Mellerio

Frontispiece for Le mouvement idéaliste en peinture (The Idealistic Movement in Painting) by André Mellerio

Odilon Redon, 1896

And the Angel Took the Censer, plate 4 of 12

And the Angel Took the Censer, plate 4 of 12

Odilon Redon, 1899

Head within an Aureole

Head within an Aureole

Odilon Redon, 1894

I Have Sometimes Seen in the Sky What Seemed Like Forms of Spirits, plate 21 of 24

I Have Sometimes Seen in the Sky What Seemed Like Forms of Spirits, plate 21 of 24

Odilon Redon, 1896

Sad Ascent, plate nine from In Dreams

Sad Ascent, plate nine from In Dreams

Odilon Redon, 1879

The Buddha

The Buddha

Odilon Redon, 1895

The Egg

The Egg

Odilon Redon, 1885

A Strange Juggler, plate 5 from Homage to Goya

A Strange Juggler, plate 5 from Homage to Goya

Odilon Redon, 1885

He could make out an arid plain...

He could make out an arid plain...

Odilon Redon

Immédiatement Surgissent Trois Déesses

Immédiatement Surgissent Trois Déesses

Odilon Redon, 1896