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Pious Women by Odilon Redon — VisualArtsDB

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

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

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