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Plate IX: Everywhere eyeballs are aflame.

Plate IX: Everywhere eyeballs are aflame.
(Plate IX: Partout des prunelles flamboient.)
 (1888)
from the Tentation de Saint-Antoine (The Temptation of Saint Anthony) series I 1888

Medium
lithograph on chine appliqué, letterpress text
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Suzette Marie Chapple Bequest, 2024
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium
lithograph on chine appliqué, letterpress text
Measurements
20.2 × 15.7 cm (image) 20.4 × 15.7 cm (chine) 44.7 × 31.1 cm (sheet)
Place/s of Execution
Paris, France
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Mellerio 92
Edition
edition of 60
Printing/Publishing
printed by Becquet, Paris, published by Edmond Deman, Brussels
Inscription
printed (diagonally) in ink (in image) l.c.: ODILON REDON
Accession Number
2024.775.9
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Suzette Marie Chapple Bequest, 2024
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Not on display

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Series

The Temptation of Saint Anthony

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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.

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

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

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Plate IV: He raises the bronze urn.

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

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

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

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Plate VIII: And all manner of frightful creatures arise.

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

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

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