Art Institute of Chicago
The Little Abbot Reading the Ramayana
Odilon Redon
- Date
- 1883
- Medium
- Charcoal with black chalk, stumping, scraping and erasing, on dark cream wove paper, discolored to tan. Ruled in pale red-orange pastel. Offset impression of Tadpole, verso.
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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