A Woman Clothed with the Sun (Une Femme revêtue du soleil)

Odilon Redon

1899

A lithograph on chine appliqué in which Odilon Redon evokes a visionary, haloed woman—part dream, part allegory—using smoky tones and delicate line to suggest an inner, mystical presence rather than a literal scene.

You first notice the pale profile and raised arm emerging from a dense, crosshatched darkness, the soft halo and scumbled textures making the figure seem to glow out of shadow.

A key example of Symbolist printmaking, it shows how Redon used lithography and chine appliqué to create painterly, atmospheric effects that opened a path from 19th‑century visionary imagery toward modernist abstraction.

Palette

Art Terms

Chine collé Figure/ground relationship Lithography Monochrome Portrait Print Symbolism

Exhibitions

The Prints of Odilon Redon

1986

Women of the Nineties: Fin-de-Siècle Prints

1979

Odilon Redon: Drawings and Lithographs

1952

Renoir's Reclining Nude

1956