The Haunting (Hantise)
Odilon Redon
1893
Medium
lithograph on wove paper, marked for reduction of image
Dimensions
image: 37.5 x 24.8 cm (14 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.) sheet: 52.4 x 34.2 cm (20 5/8 x 13 7/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of David P. Becker
Accession Number
2011.41.1
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...