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And There Fell a Great Star from Heaven, Burning as it were a Lamp, Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916), Public domain

And There Fell a Great Star from Heaven, Burning as it were a Lamp

Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916) · 1899 · lithograph

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CC0 1.0 public-domain dedication by the Cleveland Museum of Art.

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About this picture

And There Fell a Great Star from Heaven, Burning as it were a Lamp is a CC0 illustration by Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916), dated 1899. Lithograph. The file comes from Cleveland Museum of Art.

“And There Fell a Great Star from Heaven, Burning as it were a Lamp” (1899) sits between something Redon had looked at and something he invented, whether it is one of the charcoal noirs or a later pastel.

About the artist

Odilon Redon (1840–1916) was a French artist of charcoal “noirs” and, later, glowing pastels of flowers, boats, and dream figures. The pictures sit between observed nature and something invented.

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