The Old Knight
Odilon Redon
1896
Medium
Lithograph on chine collé
Dimensions
Image: 11 13/16 x 9 1/4 in. (30 x 23.5 cm) Sheet: 18 3/16 × 13 1/16 in. (46.2 × 33.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926
Accession Number
26.87.1
Tags
MenKnights
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...