Title page to the series, The Haunted House (La Maison Hantée)
Medium
Lithograph on china paper
Dimensions
sheet: 17 11/16 x 12 1/2 in. (45 x 31.8 cm) image: 12 5/8 x 7 13/16 in. (32 x 19.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928
Accession Number
28.81.7(1)
Art Historical Context
Welcome to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, where Odilon Redon's *Title page to the series, The Haunted House (La Maison Hantée)* (1896) invites visitors into a shadowy realm of mystery. This lithograph on delicate china paper, measuring 17 11/16 x 12 1/2 inches, serves as the evocative frontispiece for Redon's series inspired by Edward Bulwer-Lytton's gothic tale *The Haunters and the Haunted*. Created during the fin-de-siècle Symbolist movement, it captures the era's fascination with the supernatural, dreams, and the unseen forces lurking in the human psyche. ...
About the Artist
Odilon Redon|Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton · 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...