Cleveland Museum of Art
Princess Maleine (The Little Madonna)
Odilon RedonLinkedCulture matchlcp-4742ddd84007
- Date
- 1892
- Medium
- etching and drypoint on wove paper
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 448828
What the image shows
A black and white etching of a figure wearing a veil and a cross necklace.
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From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
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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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Provenance
- ?-?: probably Hermann Peter Rohde [1915–2005], Randers, Denmark | 1998: (sale, Christie’s, London, December 9, 1998, no. 308) | 2011: (Fitch-Febvrel Gallery, Croton, NY) | after 2011-2021: Private Collection, New York | 2021: (Mireille Mosler, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 2021-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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