Little Prelate (Petit prélat)
Odilon Redon
French, 1840–1916
1888
A small drypoint print by Odilon Redon that depicts a solitary, ambiguous prelate rendered more as an expression of mood than a literal likeness.
The tiny plate is charged with dense, velvety blacks and soft smudges that form a hunched, fur‑collared figure whose hollowed face and shadowed eyes seem to melt into a misty gray ground.
Produced in Redon’s symbolist period, the work helped shift printmaking toward conveying psychological states and poetic ambiguity, influencing later modernist explorations of dream and inner life.
Medium
Drypoint
Dimensions
plate: 4 9/16 × 3 9/16" (11.6 × 9 cm); sheet: 11 1/4 × 8 15/16" (28.6 × 22.7 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Lillie P. Bliss Collection
Accession
107.1934
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