Art, literature & history
Sous l'aile d'ombre, l'etre noir appliquait une active morsure (Beneath the wing of shadow the black creature was biting energetically)
1891
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- lithograph
- Collection no.
- 1951.10.470
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Odilon Redon. Sous l'aile d'ombre, l'etre noir appliquait une active morsure (Beneath the wing of shadow the black creature was biting energetically). 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,_Sous_l%27aile_d%27ombre,_l%27etre_noir_appliquait_une_active_morsure_(Beneath_the_wing_of_shadow_the_black_creature_was_biting_energetically),_1891,_NGA_40268.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Sous l'aile d'ombre, l'etre noir appliquait une active morsure (Beneath the wing of shadow the black creature was biting energetically) — Odilon Redon. 1891.
Medium: lithograph.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): .
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1951.10.470. 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.