Artwork preview

The Temptation of Saint Anthony (First Series)

Odilon Redon

Cleveland Museum of Art

A grid of 12 prints. Top row: a light-brownish gray rectangle with a rectangular black area containing illegible writing; a drawing of people and a creature; a person in a cloak; a person with long hair. Second row: two people in a dark room; a disembodied head; a snake; a dragonfly. Bottom row: a haloed head; an eye; a haloed head surrounded by a scribbled circle. All are drawn in black and white.

Artwork details

Dimensions:
836 × 900 px
Museum record:
View original
Palette

You May Also Like

Homage to Goya
The Haunted House
Hideous Larvae
Fragments
And All Manner of Frightful Creatures Arise
Everywhere Eyeballs are Aflame
First a Pool of Water, Then a Prostitute, the Corner of a Temple, a Soldier's Face, a Chariot with Two White, Rearing Horses
Et il tombe du ciel une grande etoile ardente (And there fell a great star from heaven burning as it were a lamp)
The Chimera with Green Eyes Turns, Bays
Fragments
Then There Appears a Singular Being, Having the Head of a Man On the Body of a Fish, plate 5 of 10
A Woman Clothed with the Sun
And the Devil That Deceived Them was Cast into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone, Where the Beast and the False Prophet Are
The Chimera Gazed at All Things with Fear
Les Sciapodes: La tete le plus bas possible, c'est le secret du bonheur! (The Skiapods: "The head as low as possible, that is the secret of happiness!")
Fragments
The Devil Speaks (Mahna No Varua Ino) (recto); Women Washing Clothes (verso)
La Mort: Mon ironie depasse toutes les autres! (Death: My iron surpasses all others!)
Sleep (Jean-René Carrière), from L'Album d'estampes originales de la Galerie Vollard
Equivalent, from Set A (Third Set, Print 8)
Le Sphynx...mon regard que rien ne peut devier, demeure tendu a travers les choses sur un horizon inaccessible. La Chimere: Moi,Je suis legere et joyeuse (The Sphinx: "My gaze, which nothing can deflect, passes through the things and remains fixed on an inaccessible horizon." The Chimera: "I am weightless and joyful")
Equivalent
The Marsh Flower, a Sad Human Head
Sketches: Cows; Two Female Portraits, One Crossed Out (from McGuire Scrapbook)