The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Pegasus and Bellerophon

Pegasus and Bellerophon

Date:: ca. 1888
Medium:: Charcoal, charcoal with water wash, white chalk, and highlighting by erasure on buff papier bleuté, darkened. Conté crayon is also present, and accounts for the darkest blacks in the drawing [per Marjorie Shelley, 9/24/09].
Dimensions:: 21 1/8 x 14 3/16 in. (53.7 x 36.1 cm)
Classification:: Drawings
Credit Line:: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number:: 1975.1.686

This artwork is not on display

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Signature: Signed in charcoal (lower center): ODILON REDON

Marking: Inscription (verso): Fogg T.L. 7651.3
Provenance

Maurice Gobin, Paris (acquired from Ambroise Vollard?); Philip Hofer, Cambridge, Massachusetts (acquired from Maurice Gobin by 1931). Acquired by Robert Lehman from Philip Hofer, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1948
See also
Who
Odilon Redon (47)
What
Drawings (27,931)

Paper (23,968)

Chalk (5,217)

Charcoal (1,027)

Crayons (938)

Conté crayons (109)
Where
Europe (148,587)

France (52,276)
When
A.D. 1800-1900 (80,185)
In the Museum
Robert Lehman Collection (2,589)
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Symbolism

Lithography in the Nineteenth Century

France, 1800–1900 A.D.
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