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Cauldron of the Sorceress

Odilon Redon · 1879

Palette

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Artist

Odilon Redon
French, 1840-1916

Date

1879

Type

Drawing & watercolour

Medium

Various charcoals, with stumping, erasing, and incising, on pale-pink wove paper with red and blue fibers altered to a golden tone

Size

40.8 × 37.1 cm (16 1/8 × 14 5/8 in.)

Place

France

Period

19th century

Main colour

Brown · lightness 38, colourfulness 13

Art Institute of Chicago, David Adler Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules