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Source Description
This print represents Odilon Redon’s fullest experimentation with color lithography. Although he occasionally printed works in a single color, he only made one work in a full range of tones. Revisiting the subject of a pastel from about a decade earlier, <em>Beatrice </em>portrays a recurring figure in Redon’s work—the woman who inspired Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265–1321). Working with his frequent collaborators during the 1890s, printer Auguste Clot and publisher Ambroise Vollard, Redon used muted shades to suggest Beatrice’s ethereal presence and her timeless role as an artistic muse.
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Document identity
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112932
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Beatrice
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print
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Source metadata
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112932
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print
title
Beatrice
description
This print represents Odilon Redon’s fullest experimentation with color lithography. Although he occasionally printed works in a single color, he only made one work in a full range of tones. Revisiting the subject of a pastel from about a decade earlier, <em>Beatrice </em>portrays a recurring figure in Redon’s work—the woman who inspired Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265–1321). Working with his frequent collaborators during the 1890s, printer Auguste Clot and publisher Ambroise Vollard, Redon used muted shades to suggest Beatrice’s ethereal presence and her timeless role as an artistic muse.
date
1897
citation
rights
CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q80005364
creators
1748
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291938
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Print
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1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
Image: 33.6 x 29.6 cm (13 1/4 x 11 5/8 in.)
cul
France, late 19th Century
accession
1931.5
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color lithograph on China paper laid on wove paper
tombstone
Beatrice, 1897. Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916), printed by Auguste Clot (French, 1858–1936), published by Ambroise Vollard (French, 1867–1939). Color lithograph on China paper laid on wove paper; image: 33.6 x 29.6 cm (13 1/4 x 11 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1931.50
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China paper
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wove paper
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PR - Lithograph
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I/I
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edition of 100
inscriptions
inscription
Signed, lower right of image, in graphite: ODILON REDON; initialed on stone, upper right corner: OR
didYouKnow
This print was published in <em>L'Album d'Estampes Originales</em>, a portfolio of lithographs edited by Vollard that included works by some of the leading artists of the day including Bonnard, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Vuillard, and Whistler.
citations
citation
<em>Catalogue of an exhibition of the art of lithography: commemorating the sesquicentennial of its invention, 1798-1948</em>. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, November 11, 1948-January 2, 1949. Published as: Béatrice.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 58
catalogueRaisonne
Mellerio 168
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Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
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2026-05-29 05:56:50.742000
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112932
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PR - Lithograph
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color lithograph on China paper laid on wove paper
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male
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