The vague glimmer of a head suspended in space

1891

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: sheet: 17 5/8 x 12 3/8 in. (44.8 x 31.4 cm) image: 6 7/8 x 8 3/16 in. (17.4 x 20.8 cm)
Collection no.: 20.30.3
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Odilon Redon. The vague glimmer of a head suspended in space. Odilon Redon; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1920. 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 vague glimmer of a head suspended in space — Odilon Redon. 1891.

Medium: Lithograph. Dimensions: sheet: 17 5/8 x 12 3/8 in. (44.8 x 31.4 cm) image: 6 7/8 x 8 3/16 in. (17.4 x 20.8 cm).

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

Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1920.

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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