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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.328
People
Odilon Redon, French (Bordeaux, France 1840 - 1916 Paris, France)
Title
Don Quixote
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
before 1890
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296508

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black crayon, black conté crayon and brown/black ink with scratchwork on tracing paper, laid down
Dimensions
actual: 29.9 x 22.4 cm (11 3/4 x 8 13/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.328
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Drawings Recent Acquisitions, Bulletin of the Fogg Museum of Art, vol. 11, no. 1, January 1949, repr.
  • Paul J. Sachs, Modern Prints and Drawings, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (New York, NY, 1954), pl. 49
  • Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 63, repr.
  • Klaus Berger, Odilon Redon: Fantasy and Color, McGraw-Hill Book Company (New York, 1965), p. 225, no. 592
  • Nicholas Wadley, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawing, Dutton Studio Books, New York (New York, NY, 1991), pp. 242-243, repr. p. 243
  • Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné, Wildenstein Institute (Paris, 1992-1998), vol. 1, p. 274, cat. no. 694, repr.
  • John J. Allen and Patricia S. Finch, Don Quijote en el arte y pensamiento de Occidente, Catedra (Madrid, 2004), repr. p. 131 (color)

Exhibition History

  • Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
  • Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967
  • Flowers of Evil: Symbolist Drawings, 1870–1910, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2016 - 08/14/2016

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