Sketch for Redon's first etching, The Ford (M. 2)
Odilon Redon
1865
Medium
Graphite on cream tracing paper, discolored to tan, laid down on cream laid paper
Dimensions
8.7 × 11.4 cm (3 7/16 × 4 1/2 in.)
Classification
graphite
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
62433
About the Artist
Odilon Redon · 1840–1916
Odilon Redon (1840-1916) was a French Symbolist painter, printmaker, and pastellist whose visionary art bridged the 19th-century Symbolist movement and 20th-century Surrealism. Born Bertrand Redon in Bordeaux on April 20, 1840, he earned the nickname "Odilon" from his mother Odile. His father, who made his fortune in the Louisiana slave trade, conceived Odilon in New Orleans before the family retu...