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Odilon Redon

Le Souffle Qui Conduit Les Etres Est Aussi Dans les Sphères (The Breath that leads Living Creatures is also in the Spheres)

Maker

Odilon Redon (French, 1840-1916), printmaker
Lemercier, printer
G. Fischbacher, publisher

Title

Le Souffle Qui Conduit Les Etres Est Aussi Dans les Sphères (The Breath that leads Living Creatures is also in the Spheres)
A Edgar Poe

Year

1882

Medium

  • lithograph on chine-collé

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • lithograph on chine-collé

Materials

lithograph

Supports

  • Light weight Oriental tissue paper laid down on medium weight white wove paper (chine collé)

Dimensions

29 x 20.8 cm (11 7/16 x 8 3/16 inches) (plate) including inscriptions

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Lettered: R: "Odilon Redon"; LC: "Imp. Lemercier & C.ie r. de Seine 57." and "Le souffle qui conduit les êtres est aussi dans les SPHÈRES."

Portfolio cover stamped with the collector's mark of André Marie Louis Mellerio (1862-1942; Lugt 153a)

Identification

Standard Reference Number

Mellerio no. 42

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Murray S. Danforth, Jr.

Object Number

50.372.5

Type

  • Prints

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Odilon Redon (French, 1840-1916), printmaker
Lemercier, printer
G. Fischbacher, publisher
Le Souffle Qui Conduit Les Etres Est Aussi Dans les Sphères (The Breath that leads Living Creatures is also in the Spheres); A Edgar Poe, 1882
lithograph on chine-collé
29 x 20.8 cm (11 7/16 x 8 3/16 inches) (plate) including inscriptions
Gift of Murray S. Danforth, Jr. 50.372.5

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