Art, literature & history
Les Sciapodes: La tete le plus bas possible, c'est le secret du bonheur! (The Skiapods: "The head as low as possible, that is the secret of happiness!")
1889
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- lithograph
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.7384
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Odilon Redon. Les Sciapodes: La tete le plus bas possible, c'est le secret du bonheur! (The Skiapods: "The head as low as possible, that is the secret of happiness!"). Odilon Redon; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Odilon_Redon,_Les_Sciapodes_-_La_tete_le_plus_bas_possible,_c%27est_le_secret_du_bonheur!_(The_Skiapods_-_%22The_head_as_low_as_possible,_that_is_the_secret_of_happiness!%22),_1889,_NGA_10180.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Les Sciapodes: La tete le plus bas possible, c'est le secret du bonheur! (The Skiapods: "The head as low as possible, that is the secret of happiness!") — Odilon Redon. 1889.
Medium: lithograph.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): .
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.7384. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.