Cover/Frontispiece for Les Fleurs du Mal, plate 1 of 9
1890
Medium
Bi-fold portfolio cover printed in black by photogravure from an original drawing, on blue-gray wove paper
Dimensions
Image, back cover: 4.4 × 4 cm (1 3/4 × 1 5/8 in.); Plate, front cover: 25.6 × 16.4 cm (10 1/8 × 6 1/2 in.); Sheet: 46.3 × 32.7 cm (18 1/4 × 12 7/8 in.)
Classification
photogravure
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
79799
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...