Cain and Abel
1886
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 16 1/8 x 10 1/2 in. (41 x 26.7 cm) image: 6 15/16 x 4 3/4 in. (17.7 x 12 cm) plate: 7 5/16 x 4 3/4 in. (18.6 x 12.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963
Accession Number
63.621.3
Tags
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...