The Inexorable Woman
Maurice Dumont
1894
Medium
Suite of seven lithographs and cover on tan wove paper
Dimensions
Plate: 11.5 × 10.6 cm (4 9/16 × 4 3/16 in.); Sheet: 25.1 × 16.4 cm (9 15/16 × 6 1/2 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
140688
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
In 1894 Maurice Dumont became director of L'Epreuve, a periodical featuring avant-garde Symbolist art and literature, and began printmaking. He achieved renown primarily for this series of seven Symbolist lithographs reflecting the influence of Odilon Redon, Felicien Rops, and Maurice Denis. La Dame inexorable depicts phases of death and dying: a willowy woman portrays both the ominous figure of death and its triumphant, haloed antithesis.