Breton Village

c. 1890

Odilon Redon

Painter, French, 1840 - 1916

We look across an ochre-yellow field to a band of pearl-white buildings under an azure-blue sky in this horizontal landscape painting. Flecks of red in the lower right corner could be flowers. Some of the buildings have tan or silvery-gray roofs, and the faces are in blue shadow. The horizon comes about halfway up the composition, and a few round white clouds trundle across the vivid blue sky. The scene is painted with visible, textured brushstrokes throughout. The artist signed the lower left corner, “ODILON REDON.”

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    overall: 22.5 x 32.5 cm (8 7/8 x 12 13/16 in.)
    framed: 31.9 x 41.9 x 3.5 cm (12 9/16 x 16 1/2 x 1 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1994.59.11

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Simone Deluy, France; sold 1958 to (Wildenstein & Co., New York);[1] sold November 1969 to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; gift 1994 to NGA.
[1] Wildenstein's acquisition date and source according to letter dated 14 December 1998, in NGA curatorial files.

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Exhibition History

2013

  • Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art, Museo dell'Ara Pacis Augustae, Rome (exhibition title in this venue: Impressionist Gems); California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio; Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo, Seattle Art Museum, 2013-2016, pl. 23.

Inscriptions

lower left, in red and purple paint: ODILON REDON.

Wikidata ID

Q20190095

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