Et l'homme parut, interrogeant le sol d'ou il sort et qui l'attire, il se fraya la voie vers (And Man appeared; questioning theearth from which he emerged and which attracts hi m, he made his way toward somber brightness)

1883

Dating: Exact year
Held at: National Gallery of Art
Medium: lithograph
Collection no.: 1951.10.465
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Odilon Redon. Et l'homme parut, interrogeant le sol d'ou il sort et qui l'attire, il se fraya la voie vers (And Man appeared; questioning theearth from which he emerged and which attracts hi m, he made his way toward somber brightness). 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,_Et_l%27homme_parut,_interrogeant_le_sol_d%27ou_il_sort_et_qui_l%27attire,_il_se_fraya_la_voie_vers,_1883,_NGA_40263.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

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Et l'homme parut, interrogeant le sol d'ou il sort et qui l'attire, il se fraya la voie vers (And Man appeared; questioning theearth from which he emerged and which attracts hi m, he made his way toward somber brightness) — Odilon Redon. 1883.

Medium: lithograph.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): .

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1951.10.465. 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.

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