Collection Online

Browse by artist name

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Plate IV: He raises the bronze urn.

Odilon REDON
Plate IV: He raises the bronze urn.
(Pl. IV: Il hausse le vase d’airain.)
 (1888)
from the Tentation de Saint-Antoine (The Temptation of Saint Anthony) series I 1888

Medium
lithograph on chine appliqué, letterpress text

Measurements
27.4 × 19.7 cm (image) 27.6 × 19.6 cm (chine) 45.0 × 31.6 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Suzette Marie Chapple Bequest, 2024

Reproduction requests

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Paris, France

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Mellerio 87

Edition
edition of 60

Printing/Publishing
printed by Becquet, Paris, published by Edmond Deman, Brussels

Inscription
printed in relief (in image) u.r.: ODILON REDON

Accession Number
2024.775.4

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

Related

Series

The Temptation of Saint Anthony

Part of series

Plate I: …first, a pool of water, then a prostitute, the corner of a temple, a soldier’s face, a chariot with two white, rearing horses.

Part of series

Plate II: It is the devil, bearing beneath his two wings the seven deadly sins

Part of series

Plate III: And a large bird, descending from the sky, hurls itself against the topmost point of her hair…

Part of series

Plate V: Then there appears a singular being, having the head of a man on the body of a fish

Part of series

Plate VI: It is a skull wreathed with roses. It dominates a woman’s torso of pearly whiteness.

Part of series

Plate VII: The chimera with green eyes turns, bays.

Part of series

Plate VIII: And all manner of frightful creatures arise.

Part of series

Plate IX: Everywhere eyeballs are aflame.

Part of series

Plate X: ….and in the very disk of the sun shines the face of Jesus Christ.

Part of series

Cover for: The Temptation of Saint Anthony (Tentation de Saint-Antoine)

Discover more

Essay
Redon, Mellerio, Mantegna and the Melbourne Pegasus
Exhibition
Building a Collection

Explore the collection

Portrait group: The singer Farinelli and friends Jacopo AMIGONI The Shepherd UNKNOWN; TITIAN (after) Baronne Madeleine Deslandes Edward BURNE-JONES Untitled W HAVELL The Virgin and Child FLANDERS Portrait of a gentleman Louis TOCQUÉ Clouds John CONSTABLE Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara Dosso DOSSI; Battista DOSSI (attributed to) Teacup and saucer MINTON, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (manufacturer) J.Smith Esq UNKNOWN Cabinet W. H. ROCKE & CO., Melbourne (manufacturer); John MATHER (decorator) Evening Dress UNKNOWN The first cloud William Quiller ORCHARDSON The grasshopper Jules LEFEBVRE Capital Letter - I UNKNOWN Self-portrait Joseph WRIGHT of Derby Farm work Lester BEALL Frederick van Velthuysen and his wife, Josina Thomas de KEYSER Winter, from The four seasons FULDA PORCELAIN FACTORY, Fulda (manufacturer) La Ramassel . UNKNOWN Anguish August Friedrich Albrecht SCHENCK Calvary FLANDERS; Jan BRUEGHEL I (studio of) Two old men disputing REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn In the Sepulchre UNKNOWN; Marshall CLAXTON (after) Monica UNKNOWN Landscape with ruins CLAUDE LORRAIN Lady Rous née Charlotte Maria Whittaker, second wife of the 6th Baronet, later, Earl of Stradbroke William BEECHEY Moses bringing down the Tables of the Law John Rogers HERBERT An aged woman looking out of a window Johannes Christianus JANSON Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence Jusepe de RIBERA