Madame Arthur Fontaine (Marie Escudier, born 1865)
Odilon Redon
1901
Medium
Pastel on paper
Dimensions
28 1/2 x 22 1/2 in. (72.4 x 57.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ittleson Jr. Purchase Fund, 1960
Accession Number
60.54
Tags
WomenPortraitsNeedlework
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...