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And There Fell a Great Star from Heaven, Burning as It Were a Lamp
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Odilon Redon and Ambroise Vollard

And There Fell a Great Star from Heaven, Burning as It Were a Lamp

1899

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And There Fell a Great Star from Heaven, Burning as It Were a Lamp

Odilon Redon and Ambroise Vollard

And There Fell a Great Star from Heaven, Burning as It Were a Lamp

And There Fell a Great Star from Heaven, Burning as It Were a Lamp

1899

Physical Qualities Tusche and crayon lithograph with scraping on chine collé, Sheet: 561 x 422 mm. (22 1/16 x 16 5/8 in.) Image: 308 x 232 mm. (12 1/8 x 9 1/8 in.)
Portfolio/Series Plate V from the portfolio "Apocalypse of Saint John (Apocalypse de Saint-Jean)"
Credit Line Blanche Adler Memorial Fund
Object Number 1951.67.4
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein," October 30, 2011-March 25, 2012.

Victor Carlson, Baltimore Museum of Art, "French Illustrated Books of the 19th and 20th Century," 15 October - 14 January 1967 (?). no. 61.

Inscribed: Monogrammed in lower right corner of image: superimposed "OR" Caption, below image: "et il tomba du ciel une grande étoile, / ardente comme un flambeau."

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