The breadth and flatness of the frontal bone

1896

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: sheet: 17 11/16 x 12 3/8 in. (45 x 31.4 cm) image: 8 15/16 x 6 in. (22.7 x 15.2 cm)
Collection no.: 28.81.7(7)
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Odilon Redon. The breadth and flatness of the frontal bone. Odilon Redon; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

The breadth and flatness of the frontal bone — Odilon Redon. 1896.

Medium: Lithograph. Dimensions: sheet: 17 11/16 x 12 3/8 in. (45 x 31.4 cm) image: 8 15/16 x 6 in. (22.7 x 15.2 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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