The Sphinx, charcoal drawing by Odilon Redon
A dark charcoal drawing shows a large, shadowy head in profile, its features emerging from a murky background of smudged tones. A massive, hooded form rises above a faint, pale ground at the lower edge, where light touches a few sprigs of foliage. The soft, blurred strokes and stumped shading create a brooding, dreamlike mood.
- Artist
- Odilon Redon
- Date
- 1883
- Medium
- Various charcoals, with touches of black chalk, stumping, wiping, and erasing, on pale-pink wove paper with red and blue fibers altered to a
- Source
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Size
- 1686 × 2349 px
Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1883).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, David Adler Collection
