2006.79: "I saw a large and pale sudden glow" (by Odilon Redon); verso: Bords de Rivière, ou Les Oies (by Alfred Sisley)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2006.79

People

Odilon Redon, French (Bordeaux, France 1840 - 1916 Paris, France)
Alfred Sisley, British (Paris 1839 - 1899 Moret-sur-Loing)

Title

"I saw a large and pale sudden glow" (by Odilon Redon); verso: Bords de Rivière, ou Les Oies (by Alfred Sisley)

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Je vis une lueur large et pale

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1896-1897

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/237131

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Lithograph on off white wove paper

Technique

Lithograph

Dimensions

sheet: 32.8 x 21.3 cm (12 15/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
image: 42.6 x 28.5 cm (16 3/4 x 11 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso: lower right in pencil: Sisley

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition

printer's proof

Standard Reference Number

Mellerio 162, Delteil 6

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Marjorie B. and Martin Cohn in memory of Vojtech Jirat-Wasiutynski

Accession Year

2006

Object Number

2006.79

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

This is a printer's proof from the shop of Auguste Clot. Printed in black lithographic ink on white chine applique, mounted down on white wove paper. The reverse of this paper is printed with blue lithographic ink with an impression of the blue stone for the lithograph by Alfred Sisley's "Bords de Rivière," or "Les Oies" (Del. 6).

Commentary

This print, from an album of six lithographs called The Haunted House and published by Auguste Clot, is a working proof with a Sisley lithograph on the verso. The album of prints is based on the occultist Rene Philipon's translation of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's story The Haunted and the Haunters. Philipon was a friend and patron of Redon's and financed the production of the album. "I Saw a Large and Pale Light" documents a supposed apparition in a haunted house, the specter created by burnishing away some of the crayon tusche on the lithographic stone.

Exhibition History

• Ancient to Modern, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2012 - 06/01/2013

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