Bouquet in a Chinese Vase
Odilon Redon
ca. 1912–14
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
25 1/2 x 19 5/8 in. (64.8 x 49.8 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ittleson Jr. Purchase Fund, 1964
Accession Number
64.266
Tags
FlowersVasesStill Life
About the Artist
Odilon Redon · 1840–1916
Odilon Redon (1840-1916) was a French Symbolist painter, printmaker, and pastellist whose visionary art bridged the 19th-century Symbolist movement and 20th-century Surrealism. Born Bertrand Redon in Bordeaux on April 20, 1840, he earned the nickname "Odilon" from his mother Odile. His father, who made his fortune in the Louisiana slave trade, conceived Odilon in New Orleans before the family retu...