Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004318Pious Women
by Odilon Redon
Inscriptions
Signed "Odilon Redon"
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard (1867-1939), Paris [according to Joachim 1979]. Henri Petiet (1894-1980), Paris [according to Joachim 1979]; sold to the Art Institute, 1950.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Exhibition of 19 charcoals owned by Jean Goriany [or Henri Petiet] made for Flaubert's The Temptation of Saint Anthony," August, 1941. Paris, Musée de Orangerie, "Odilon Redon," 1956-1957, cat. 51. The Hague, Gemeemtemuseum, "Odilon Redon," 1957, cat. 34. Lugano, Switzerland, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, "Odilon Redon, La Nature de l'Invisible," September 7-November 17, 1996, cat. 93. Paris, Galleries Nationales du Grand Palais, "Odilon Redon, Prince du Reve 1840-1916", March 22 - June 20, 2011, p. 246-247, cat. 83, Rudolph Rapetti et. al.
Publications
"Redon, Flaubert, Vollard," Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago, 36 (1942), p. 5 (ill.). "Redon: Drawings and Lithographs," Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art, 19 (Winter, 1952), p. 13 (ill.). Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979) p. 80, no. 4E1. Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon: Catalogue Raisonné de l’Oeuvre Peint et Dessiné I (Paris, 1992), pp. 253-254, no. 649 (ill.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Odilon Redon / French, 1840-1916
- Date
- 1890/93
- Medium
- Black chalk and black pastel with black and brown charcoal, stumping and erasing, on ivory wove paper (discolored to cream)
- Dimensions
- 52.7 × 37.4 cm (20 3/4 × 14 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- charcoal
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- David Adler Collection
- Accession no.
- 1950.1427
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