Art Institute of Chicago
False Glory
Odilon Redon
- Date
- c. 1885
- Medium
- Various charcoals, with incising, stumping, wiping, erasing, and subtractive brushwork, on pale-pink wove paper altered to a pale, golden tone
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
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.
The authoritative record is held by Art Institute of Chicago. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.
Linked open data
Authority identifiers that link this record into the wider web of cultural data — stable references you can follow to the source.
- Object type
- AAT300033973
Related across collections
Semantically similar works from Art Institute of Chicago and other institutions.
Adverse Glory
Art Institute of Chicago
Adverse Glory
Art Institute of Chicago
Fear
Art Institute of Chicago
And the Devil That Deceived Them was Cast into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone, Where the Beast and the False Prophet Are
Cleveland Museum of Art
Little Brother and Sister
Cleveland Museum of Art
And In the Very Disk of the Sun Shines the Face of Jesus Christ
Cleveland Museum of Art
La Ronde
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Fear
Cleveland Museum of Art
Melancholy
Cleveland Museum of Art
He Raises the Bronze Urn
Cleveland Museum of Art
He Fixed His Eyes on Me with an Expression That Was So Strange
Cleveland Museum of Art
Primitive Being
Art Institute of Chicago