First a Pool of Water, Then a Prostitute, the Corner of a Temple, a Soldier's Face, a Chariot with Two White, Rearing Horses

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Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916)

1888

First a Pool of Water, Then a Prostitute, the Corner of a Temple, a Soldier's Face, a Chariot with Two White, Rearing Horses by Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916)

Medium

lithograph

Dimensions

29.1 × 20.8 cm

Classification

Department

Prints

Museum

Cleveland Museum of Art

Credit

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland

Accession Number

1927.477.2

Tags

male

About this artwork

This portfolio is one of three made by Odilon Redon inspired by avant-garde writer Gustave Flaubert’s novel The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1874). Captivated by the book’s fantastical account of moralizing tests encountered by a hermit in the desert, Redon executed charcoal drawings and attempted to evoke that medium’s dense blackness in his lithographs. Based on the text’s darkly imaginative tone rather than its actual content, the works in this series present invented monsters and figures in ...

First a Pool of Water, Then a Prostitute, the Corner of a Temple, a Soldier's Face, a Chariot with Two White, Rearing Horses

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