DrawingsFrench19th century

Chimera

1880-1895

Artists

Odilon RedonArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Charcoal and black crayon with stumping, scratchwork and lifting on buff wove paper

Culture

French

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

50.9 x 37.8 cm (20 1/16 x 14 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Claude-Emile Shuffenecker, c. 1892; Ambroise Vollard, Paris; Stephen Higgins, Paris, c. 1958; Jean-Pierre Durand, Geneva; Mme Edouard Jonas, Paris; E.V. Thaw & Co., New York; Richard B. Sisson, New York; bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 2005

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