About the Artwork
The Buddha
1895
Odilon Redon
1840-1916
French
Unknown
Lithograph on chine-collé
Image (sight): 12 3/8 × 9 3/4 inches (31.4 × 24.8 cm) Sheet: 17 3/8 × 13 7/8 inches (44.1 × 35.2 cm)
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Bequest of Jessie L. Metcalf, 1980
F1988.44
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Markings
Inscribed, in black, lower left: Le Buddha | On m'a mené dans les écoles. J'en savais plus que les docteurs. | (gustave Flaubert) [translated from French, a line from Gustave Flaubert's Temptation of Saint Anthony (1874): The Buddha: They brought me to the schools. I knew more than the professors.]
Provenance
estate of Jessie L. Metcalf
1988-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Odilon Redon, The Buddha, 1895, lithograph on chine-collé. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Jessie L. Metcalf, 1980, F1988.44.
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