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

Medium
lithograph on chine appliqué, letterpress text

Measurements
(45.0 × 31.1 cm) (sheet) (each)

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

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Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Paris, France

Edition
edition of 60

Accession Number
2024.775.1-11

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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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.

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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