Odilon REDON

Cover for: The Temptation of Saint Anthony (Tentation de Saint-Antoine)
(1888)

Medium

lithograph on chine appliqué, letterpress text

Credit Line: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Suzette Marie Chapple Bequest, 2024
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Gallery location: Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium

lithograph on chine appliqué, letterpress text

Measurements

20.0 × 13.9 cm (image) (front cover) 4.4 × 4.0 cm (image) (back cover) 45.0 × 31.4 cm (closed) 45.0 × 62.8 cm (open)

Place/s of Execution

Paris, France

Catalogue/s Raisonné

Mellerio 83

Edition

edition of 60

Printing/Publishing

printed by Becquet, Paris, published by Edmond Deman, Brussels

Inscription

printed in ink (in image) OR (monogram)

Accession Number

2024.775.11

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

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.

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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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Odilon REDON

Cover for: The Temptation of Saint Anthony (Tentation de Saint-Antoine)
(1888)

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The Temptation of Saint Anthony

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.

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

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

Plate IV: He raises the bronze urn.

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

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

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

Plate VIII: And all manner of frightful creatures arise.

Plate IX: Everywhere eyeballs are aflame.

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

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Odilon REDON Cover for: The Temptation of Saint Anthony (Tentation de Saint-Antoine) (1888)

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The Temptation of Saint Anthony

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.

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

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

Plate IV: He raises the bronze urn.

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

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

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

Plate VIII: And all manner of frightful creatures arise.

Plate IX: Everywhere eyeballs are aflame.

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

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Odilon REDON

Cover for: The Temptation of Saint Anthony (Tentation de Saint-Antoine)
(1888)