Odilon Redon, thirty-nine in 1879, produces the…
April 1879 CE
The Bordeaux native had studied under Jean-Léon Gérome; mastered engraving from Rodolphe Bresdin, who had exerted an important influence; and learned lithography under Henri Fantin-Latour.
His aesthetic is not one of visual perception but of imagination, for which he finds an intellectual catalyst in his close friend Stephen Mallarmé.