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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1955.166
People
Odilon Redon, French (Bordeaux, France 1840 - 1916 Paris, France)
Title
The Death of Orpheus
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1904
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/195672

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
sight: 29.2 x 75.6 cm (11 1/2 x 29 3/4 in.)
framed: 55.5 x 101.5 cm (21 7/8 x 39 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: Odilon Redon
  • inscription: verso, left side of cradle, black ink: 5969
  • inscription: verso, center of cradle, white chalk: C [illegible text] NTR
  • inscription: verso, frame, upper left, white chalk: ISA
  • inscription: verso, frame, upper left, white chalk: P
  • inscription: verso, lower right of frame, white chalk: 2-2[illegible]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Jos Hessel, sold; to Gustave Fayet (1865-1925), Béziers, 1910. [1] Marcel Kapferer, Paris, probably by 1938. [Wildenstein & Co., New York, New York], sold; to Private Collector, 1955, gift; to Fogg Art Museum,1955

Notes
[1] Hessel provenance from "Gustave Fayet: "L'oeil souverain," pp. 139-140
[2] Kapferer likely owned the painting during the 1938 exhibition. The catalogue's format makes the ownership unclear.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift in memory of Clément Dorra
Accession Year
1955
Object Number
1955.166
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • André Salmon, "Odilon Redon" (Paris, France, January 1913), no. 1, repr.
  • Claude Roger-Marx, Exhibition of Paintings by Odilon Redon, exh. cat., Wildenstein & Company (London, 1938), no. 40
  • Odilon Redon, exh. cat., Musée de l'Orangerie (Paris, 1956), under no. 27
  • Visionaries and Dreamers, exh. cat., Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1956), no. 27, repr.
  • William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture from American College and University Collections: Inaugural Exhibition, exh. cat. (Chapel Hill, NC, 1958), cat. no. 52
  • Robert Schmutzler, Art Nouveau-Jugendstil, Verlag Gerd Hatje (Stuttgart, Germany, 1962), reproduced no. 125, pp. 120-121
  • Klaus Berger, Odilon Redon: Phantasie und Farbe, M. DuMont Schauberg (Cologne, Germany, 1964), no. 127, p. 191
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 126; reproduced no. 406
  • Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné, Wildenstein Institute (Paris, 1992-1998), vol. 2, no. 887, repr.
  • Stéphane Guibourgé, Alexandre d'Andoque, and Magali Rougeot, Gustave Fayet: L'oeil souverain, Editions du Regard (Paris, 2015), pp. 139-140, 216 note 272

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of Paintings by Odilon Redon, Wildenstein Gallery, London, London, 01/01/1938 - 12/31/1938
  • Visionaries and Dreamers, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 05/01/1956 - 05/31/1956
  • Inaugural Exhibition, William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, Chapel Hill, 09/20/1958 - 10/20/1958
  • Sublimations: Art and Sensuality in the 19th Century, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/13/1996 - 07/21/2002

Verification Level

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