Cleveland Museum of Art

Princess Maleine (The Little Madonna)

Odilon Redon

Date

1892

Medium

etching and drypoint on wove paper

Department

Prints

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Although Odilon Redon was best known for his lithographs, he created nearly 30 prints using etching throughout his career. Here, he depicted Princess Maleine, the protagonist of a tragic drama by avant-garde playwright Maurice Maeterlinck, himself a collector of Redon’s prints. The young woman is represented in feathery black lines and tonal areas created using drypoint, a technique that wears down as impressions are printed. Odilon Redon created this print by reusing the copper plate from his 1880 etching David , and the earlier image is faintly visible throughout.

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