About this artwork
This eerie drawing may have had familial ramifications. In the 1880s Redon’s younger brother, Gaston, won the coveted Prix de Rome in architecture, which may have rekindled a kind of sibling rivalry and increased the artist’s own feelings of inadequacy. Reiterating a motif that he had used before, Redon seems to have included a solar eclipse in one of the eyes of the laurel-wreathed bust’s masklike face.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Odilon Redon
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Title
- False Glory
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Origin
- France
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Date
- 1880–1890
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Medium
- Various charcoals, with incising, stumping, wiping, erasing, and subtractive brushwork, on pale-pink wove paper altered to a pale, golden tone
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Inscriptions
- Signed lower left, black chalk: "ODILON REDON"
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Dimensions
- 499 × 331 mm
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Credit Line
- Through prior acquisitions of the David Adler Memorial Fund
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Reference Number
- 1996.46
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/144358/manifest.json
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