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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.396
People
Odilon Redon, French (Bordeaux, France 1840 - 1916 Paris, France)
Title
Saint Sebastian
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Mystical Personality of Saint Sebastian; Mystical Saint Sebastian
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
before 1910
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298160

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and gouache on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 23.4 x 15.3 cm (9 3/16 x 6 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
(?) Bauchy (Wildenstein 1992-98, vol. 1 [1992], no. 534); his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 20, 1923, no. 52; acquired at that sale through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, April 1930; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.396
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Klaus Berger, Odilon Redon: Fantasy and Colour, McGraw-Hill Book Company (New York, Toronto, London, 1965), no. 534, pl. 24
  • Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné, Wildenstein Institute (Paris, 1992-1998), vol. 1, no. 534, repr.
  • Douglas Druick, Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams, 1840-1916, exh. cat., Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, 1994), pp. 349 (fig. 116), 350
  • Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), cat. no. 109, repr. (color)
  • Franklin Einspruch, Fuse Visual Art Review: A Pair of Drawing Shows at the Harvard Art Museums, The Arts Fuse ([e-journal], June 9, 2016), http://artsfuse.org/146319/fuse-visual-arts-review-a-pair-of-drawing-shows-at-the-harvard-art-museums/, accessed June 9, 2016

Exhibition History

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