Brown Paper Cover (wrapper) for the series, The Haunted House (La Maison Hantée)
Dimensions
sheet (folded): 17 15/16 x 12 7/8 in. (45.5 x 32.7 cm) sheet (unfolded): 17 15/16 x 25 3/4 in. (45.5 x 65.4 cm)
Classification
Portfolios
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928
Accession Number
28.81.7
About the Artist
Odilon Redon|Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton|René Philipon · 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...