The Chariot of Apollo

The Chariot of Apollo: Introduction

Odilon Redon's The Chariot of Apollo sends a team of pale horses and a small driver across a blue-green expanse without road, horizon or earth. The figures do not simply travel through the sky: they seem to have been released into colour itself. Long reins connect bodies separated by an improbable interval, while clouds gather without providing a stable landscape. Movement is unmistakable, but its outcome is not.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art dates this oil painting to 1905–16. It measures 66 × 81.3 centimetres and carries the object number 27.29.^[1] Redon treated the chariot motif more than thirty times, yet this canvas must remain a distinct object rather than a composite of those versions. Its open field, dispersed team and ambiguous driver make an ancient story feel less like a fixed episode than a vision still forming.

At a Glance

• ArtistOdilon Redon (1840–1916).
• Date and medium1905–16; oil on canvas.^[1]
• Dimensions66 × 81.3 cm.^[1]
• Subjectthe horses of the sun, driven either by Apollo or by Phaethon according to the Met's interpretation.^[1]
• Series contextRedon made more than thirty treatments of the motif in oil, pastel and pencil.^[1]
• Current collectionThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; object 27.29, Anonymous Gift, 1927. The museum currently lists it as not on view.^[1]

Odilon Redon in context

Works

1875188218891896190319101917

Eye-Balloon

1878

Guardian Spirit of the Waters

1878

Closed Eyes

1890

Ophelia among the Flowers

c. 1905–08

Vase of Flowers (Pink Background)

c. 1906

The Chariot of Apollo

1905–16

Pandora

1910/12

The Cyclops

c. 1914

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Following the Chariot Across the Canvas
3. Apollo, Phaethon and an Unsettled Story
4. Why Redon Returned to the Motif
5. Oil, Colour and the Persistence of Unease
6. A Careful Comparison with Delacroix
7. From Pegasus to the Horses of the Sun
8. The Painting at the Met
9. Why the Painting Endures

Following the Chariot Across the Canvas

Begin with the horses at the upper left. They are the largest and palest forms in the painting, but they do not assemble into a tidy procession. Heads, necks, flanks and raised legs overlap in a compact knot. Brown and russet contours clarify some parts while allowing others to sink into cream and grey. One animal lifts its head almost vertically; another extends forwards; the lower bodies bunch together. The team therefore registers first as a surge before it becomes a countable group.

From that mass, follow the fine reins towards the lower right. Their extended curves cross a broad interval of blue and pass through a soft bloom of pale colour. They are essential compositional lines: without them, horses and vehicle might read as separate apparitions. Yet their length also makes the connection precarious. The driver occupies a small two-wheeled chariot far behind the team, apparently bracing against the horses' pull. A warm outline around the body stands out against the cooler surrounding field.

The wheel is one of the few complete geometric shapes. Its circle gives the eye a momentary anchor, but there is no surface beneath it. Redon omits the practical evidence that would normally explain weight and travel. The Met observes that this absence makes the charioteer and horses appear to race across a boundless sky.^[1] The wheel consequently functions as an emblem of motion rather than as an object rolling on terrain.

Now attend to the colour between the figures. Turquoise and muted blue dominate, interrupted by rose, violet, ochre and smoky cream. Cloud-like clusters are most substantial along the lower edge and at the right, but none forms a reliable horizon. In places, patches seem to advance because they are warmer; elsewhere they disperse into the blue. Redon makes atmosphere active without converting it into a measured depth.

The main movement runs diagonally from the chariot at lower right towards the horses above and left. A second rhythm travels in the opposite direction through the reins, binding the driver back to the team. These opposing vectors keep the painting from becoming a simple image of ascent. The horses appear to burst away, while the charioteer remains smaller, lower and vulnerable. Speed is felt through separation as much as through pose.

Apollo, Phaethon and an Unsettled Story

The title names Apollo, god of light and poetry, but the Met leaves the driver's identity open. The figure may instead be Phaethon, the young man who attempted to steer the sun's horses and fell to his death.^[1] Redon does not supply the narrative details that would settle the question. There is no clearly depicted destination, no ground from which the journey begins and no catastrophe shown below.

That ambiguity changes the emotional register. Read as Apollo, the rushing team may suggest command, illumination and the recurrent course of the sun. Read as Phaethon, the same stretched reins and widening distance can imply lost control and impending disaster. The driver is too small to project unquestioned mastery, yet nothing in the painting proves defeat. Triumph and danger remain available at the same time.

Redon's handling of myth fits the broader pattern explored in Symbolism, dreams and imagination. A known story supplies recognisable figures, but it does not close interpretation. The painting is not vague because Redon forgot the tale. Its omissions make the viewer feel the unstable interval before meaning settles: an instant that could belong to radiant order or irreversible error.

Why Redon Returned to the Motif

The Met records more than thirty versions of the chariot subject across oil, pastel and pencil.^[1] That number describes recurrence, not thirty interchangeable replicas. A motif involving horses, reins, a small driver and open sky could be compressed or expanded, darkened or brightened, made calm or thrown off balance. Repetition let Redon test how little narrative information was needed before a viewer sensed force, flight and uncertainty.

A historical Museum of Modern Art catalogue offered an observational context for this sustained interest. It reported that living near a horse dealer prompted Redon to develop works around Pegasus and Apollo's chariot, and it characterised his mythological subjects as plausible frames for imaginative compositions rather than literal illustrations of specified episodes.^[5] That account should not be treated as a technical record for the Met canvas, but it helps explain how studied animal forms could support an invented celestial event.

The long date range, 1905–16, belongs specifically to object 27.29. Other Chariot paintings and pastels have their own dates, supports, dimensions and histories. The Musée d'Orsay, for example, discusses a separate Chariot pastel when describing Redon's use of hatching and parallel strokes to create vibration in colour.^[2] That technical discussion illuminates his wider practice, but the medium must not migrate: the Met's picture is oil on canvas.^[1]

This serial method connects The Chariot of Apollo to Redon's repeated eyes, floating heads, flowers and mythic creatures. He did not necessarily return because a first solution had failed. Recurrence was a way of keeping an image alive across altered materials and arrangements. Readers can compare those changes within Redon's paintings and pastels without treating one version as the definitive key to all the others.

Oil, Colour and the Persistence of Unease

The Met introduces the work through Redon's avid experiments with colour around 1900, after the black charcoal drawings for which he had become known.^[1] That career shift is real, but it can be overstated. The Musée d'Orsay describes a gradual transition in which charcoal remained present in pastels and pastel could enhance paintings; matte, powdery surfaces continued to matter.^[2] Getty similarly stresses continuity between the dark apparitions and later coloured forms, which still emerge from indeterminate realms.^[3]

In this canvas, oil does not serve conventional solidity. The blue-green field varies in density, with mottled passages that appear rubbed, veiled or lightly covered. Warmer cloud forms accumulate without hard edges. The horses are more visibly modelled than the air around them, yet their pale bodies also break into surrounding colour. The chariot and driver rely on slender outlines and small areas of warm paint rather than weighty volume.

These observations describe the visible surface, not a laboratory analysis. The museum catalogues the object simply as oil on canvas.^[1] Its dry-looking reproduction does not justify relabelling it as pastel, nor should the Orsay account of mixed media be transferred to this painting. What can be said is that Redon makes oil behave atmospherically: pigment identifies bodies, loosens their boundaries and fills the space that carries them.

Colour also refuses an easy equation with happiness. The dominant blue can feel expansive, and rose or gold brings luminosity, but the team is strained across the picture and the driver's control remains uncertain. Pale horses do not automatically signify rescue. The same field can hold dawn, glare, cloud and void. Redon's late colour widens the emotional range developed in the noirs, prints and drawings rather than cancelling their unease.

A Careful Comparison with Delacroix

Eugène Delacroix offers an important precedent for thinking about Redon's rushing horses, dramatic diagonals and radiant myth. MoMA's historical scholarship documents Redon's admiration for Delacroix from youth, his encouragement to study the older painter and the lasting place that Delacroix held in his artistic formation.^[5] That evidence makes a dialogue plausible.

It does not prove that every element of the Met painting was copied from one Delacroix composition. Redon's picture strips away the crowded machinery expected of a grand mythological scene. The team occupies one side, the driver another, and colour fills the breach. Even where a Delacroix comparison sharpens attention to energy and light, Redon's extreme dispersal and groundless space remain his own solution.

This distinction matters because influence is not the same as dependence. Redon could carry forward Delacroix's sense that colour and movement generate feeling while refusing a fully narrated spectacle. The older painter helps locate an artistic inheritance; the Met object still has to be read through its particular scale, medium and arrangement.

From Pegasus to the Horses of the Sun

Horses already joined observation and myth in Redon's earlier work. The Met says that he explored Pegasus in paintings, drawings and lithographs from the early 1880s to the end of his career.^[4] Its charcoal Pegasus and Bellerophon, made around 1888, sets the winged horse above a much smaller hero. Corrections visible around the wings create quivering energy, while charcoal, wash, white heightening and erasure build mystery.^[4]

The comparison reveals continuity without collapsing the works. In both, the animal presence exceeds the human figure, and flight becomes a problem of scale and unstable space. Yet the Met Chariot painting needs no wings. Its team is airborne because the ground has vanished, not because each horse has been turned into Pegasus. Oil spreads blue and rose around their pale bodies where the earlier drawing draws drama from black, buff paper and erased light.

Pegasus and Apollo also demonstrate how Redon reused classical myth to test different relationships between human agency and nonhuman power. Bellerophon stands beneath a looming creature; the Chariot driver is pulled behind an expanding team. In neither case does myth become an excuse for archaeological detail. It provides a spare structure through which size, motion and imagination can be made visible.

The Painting at the Met

The Met's credit line records The Chariot of Apollo as an Anonymous Gift of 1927.^[1] That is the public acquisition statement, not a reason to invent an earlier chain of owners. The painting belongs to the museum's Department of European Paintings and is identified there as 27.29. The collection page currently marks it as not on view, so anyone hoping to see it should check again shortly before visiting.

The museum also marks the image Public Domain and provides a downloadable file.^[1] Reproduction makes the broad structure readily visible, but subtle variations in a blue field and the distinction between thin and denser paint can shift with screen settings. In person, the painting's 81.3-centimetre width would allow the empty interval between driver and horses to register not as background left over, but as one of the work's principal forms.

Why the Painting Endures

The Chariot of Apollo turns an ancient vehicle into a modern problem of perception. The subject is legible, yet identity, direction and outcome remain unsettled. Redon makes colour luminous without making it secure, and he suggests speed by pulling the composition almost apart.

The work is therefore more than an emblem of a brighter late career. It preserves the uncertainty that animates Redon's darker visions. Whether the driver commands the sun or is about to lose it, horses, reins, wheel and sky hold together for one suspended instant. The painting's power lies in keeping that instant open.

Researched works directory

This searchable evidence census was assembled from public museum records and a reproducible Wikidata snapshot. It is not a catalogue raisonné, a claim to complete oeuvre coverage, or a substitute for Alec Wildenstein's printed catalogue, which was not consulted for this directory.

490 artworks

Search artworks Medium All media Drawing Painting Reset

Name	Date	Medium
A La Vieillesse (To Old Age)	1886	Print
A Madman in a Dismal Landscape	1885	Print
A Woman Reading a Book or Reading	1914	Painting
Allégorie : un arbre rouge non rougi par le soleil	1905	Painting
Alsace	1914	Painting
Andromeda	1907	Painting
Andromeda	1912	Painting
Andromeda enchained	1905	Painting
Anémones	Date unknown	Painting
Anemones and Tulips	1902	Painting
Animals at the Bottom of the Sea	Date unknown	Painting
Antoine: Quel Est Le But de Tout Cela? ...	Date unknown	Print
Apache (Man on Horseback)	Date unknown	Painting
Apache (Man on Horseback II)	Date unknown	Painting
Apollo	1905	Painting
Apollo's chariot	1910	Painting
Apollon vainqueur du serpent Python	1872	Painting
Apollonius	1896	Drawing
Apparition	1905	Painting
Apparition	1907	Painting
Apres cela je vis descendre du ciel un ange qui avait la clef de l'abime, et une grande chaine en sa main (And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand)	1899	Print
Arabe musicien	1893	Painting
Arbre dans la lande	Date unknown	Painting
Arbre (Tree)	1892	Print
Arbres sur un fond jaune	1901	Painting
Ari	1898	Print
Armor	1891	Drawing
At the Bottom of the Sea	1905	Painting
Au réveil j’aperçus la Déesse de l’Intelligible au profil sévère et dur [Bij het ontwaken zag ik de godin van het begrijpelijke in een streng en hard profiel], uit de reeks Hommage à Goya. 6 lithographies par Odilon Redon	1885	Print
Autoportrait en buste	1876	Painting
Bain de Venus	1900	Painting
Barbizon en automne	Date unknown	Painting
Baronne de Domecy	1900	Painting
Baronne Robert de Domecy	1900	Painting
Barques	1885	Painting
Barques dans le port	1880	Painting
Battle with the dragon	1907	Painting
Beatrice	1885	Painting
Béatrice	1897	Print
Bell-Tower Keeper	Date unknown	Painting
Black Sun	1900	Painting
Bloemstilleven	1901	Painting
Boqueteau	Date unknown	Painting
Bouddha dans sa jeunesse	Date unknown	Painting
Bouleaux à Bièvres	Date unknown	Painting
Bouquet au vase noir	Date unknown	Painting
Bouquet de fleurs	1900	Painting
Bouquet de fleurs	1908	Painting
Bouquet de fleurs au mimosa	Date unknown	Painting
Bouquet in a Chinese Vase	1912	Painting
Bouquet of Flowers	1902	Painting
Bouquet of flowers	1904	Painting
Bouquet of Flowers in a Green Vase	1915	Painting
Breton Village	1890	Painting
Brunnhilde	1894	Print
Butterflies	1910	Painting
C'est le Diable	1888	Print
C'est moi, Jean, qui ai vu et qui ai oie ces choses (And I John saw these things and heard them	1899	Print
C'etait un voile, un empriente (It was a veil, an imprint)	1891	Print
Cain and Abel	1886	Print
Caïn et Abel	Date unknown	Painting
Caliban, petit monstre ou gnome	1881	Drawing
Calvary	1895	Painting
Carnations	Date unknown	Drawing
Carton de vitrail	1911	Painting
Cavalier Galopant (Galloping Horseman)	1866	Print
Cellule Auriculaire	1894	Print
Cellule Auriculaire (Auricular Cell)	1894	Print
Centaur visant les Nues (Centaur aiming at the Clouds)	1895	Print
Chaumière bretonne	Date unknown	Painting
Chemin près de la mer	Date unknown	Painting
Cheval aile (Winged Horse)	1894	Print
Cheval cabré sur une cime	Date unknown	Painting
Christ	1887	Print
Christ and the Samaritan Woman (The White Flower Bouquet)	1895	Painting
Christ on the cross	1910	Painting
Ciel couvert sur une lande	Date unknown	Painting
Citroen en paprika	1901	Painting
Cliff Scene	1895	Painting
Closed Eyes	1890	Painting
Closed Eyes (Yeux Clos)	1890	Print
Colline, près de Royan	Date unknown	Painting
Combat équestre	1910	Painting
Composition à trois personnages (Flagellation ?)	Date unknown	Painting
Composition: Flowers	Date unknown	Painting
Composition: Flowers without a Vase	Date unknown	Painting
Conque marine	Date unknown	Painting
Conversation mystique	Date unknown	Painting
copie d'après 'La chasse aux lions' de Delacroix	1865	Painting
Copie d'après 'La Grèce sur les ruines de Missolonghi' de Delacroix	Date unknown	Painting
Coquelicots	1885	Painting
Couverture - Frontispice	1890	Print
Crucifixion	Date unknown	Painting
Cul-de-Lampe	1890	Print
Dans l'Ombre des Gens Pleurent et Prient Entourés d'Autres Qui Les Exhortent	Date unknown	Print
Dans mon rêve, je vis au ciel un visage de mystère	1885	Print
Dante and Beatrice	1914	Painting
De oude Ridder	1896	Print
De Strijdwagen van Apollo	Date unknown	Painting
Den helige Antonius, bröstbild	1906	Drawing
Des Fleurs Tombent, et la Tête d'un Python Parait	Date unknown	Print
Des Peuples Divers Habitent Les Pays De L'Océan	Date unknown	Print
Die Kathedrale - 13080 - Bavarian State Painting Collections	1914	Painting
Druidesse	1891	Print
Druidesse	1892	Print
Dunes	Date unknown	Painting
Edouard Vuillard	1900	Print
Een man van het volk. Tekening voor een illustratie in Le Juré van Edmond Picard	1887	Drawing
Eerbetoon aan Goya	1895	Painting
Elle Tire de Sa Poitrine une Éponge Toute Noire, La Couvre de Baisers	Date unknown	Print
Elle tire de sa poitrine une eponge toute noire, la couvre de baisers (She draws from her bosom a sponge, perfectly black, and covers it with kisses)	1896	Print
Escape to Egypt	Date unknown	Painting
Esquisse de vitrail	1905	Drawing
Et celui qui était monté dessus se nommait la Mort (And his name that sat on him was Death)	1899	Print
Et il avait dans sa main droit sept etoiles, et de sa bouch sortait une epee aigue a deux tranchants (And he had in his right hand seven stars; and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword)	1899	Print
Et Il Distingue Une Plaine Aride et Mamelonneuse	Date unknown	Print
Et il tombe du ciel une grande etoile ardente (And there fell a great star from heaven burning as it were a lamp)	1899	Print
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	Print
Et la-bas l'idole astrale, l'Apotheose (And beyond, the star idol, the apotheosis)	1891	Print
Et le diable qui les seduisait, fut jete dans l'etang de feu et de soufre, ou es la b ete et le faux prophete (And the devil thatdeceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are)	1899	Print
Et le lia pour mille ans (And bound him a thousand years)	1899	Print
Et moi, Jean, Je vis la sainte cite, la nouvelle Jerusalem, qui descendait du ciel, d'aupres de dieu (And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven)	1899	Print
Et Partout ce Sont des Colonnes de Basalte,... La Lumière Tombe des Voutes	Date unknown	Print
...Et Que Des Vuex Sans Tête Flottaient Comme Des Mollusques	Date unknown	Print
Et un autre ange sortit du temple qui est au ciel, ayant lui aussi une faucille tranchante (And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, and he also having a sharp sickle)	1899	Print
Etruscan Vase with Flowers	1905	Painting
étude pour 'La chasse aux lions' d’après Delacroix	1867	Painting
Eve	1904	Painting
Evocation of Butterflies	1910	Painting
Evocation of Roussel	1912	Painting
Eye-Balloon	1878	Drawing
Falaise dominant la mer	Date unknown	Painting
Fantasia	1910	Painting
Fantasmagorie	Date unknown	Painting
Femme a la torque ornee (Woman with a plumed hat)	1900	Print
Femme de Profil (Profile of a Woman)	1900	Print
Femme en rouge	1898	Drawing
Ferme et rochers	Date unknown	Painting
Figure	1901	Painting
Figure cornue	Date unknown	Drawing
Figure devant un arbre	1894	Drawing
Figure portant une tête ailée	1876	Drawing
Figure, yellow flower	1901	Painting
Fireplace screen	1908	Painting
Fishing Boat	Date unknown	Painting
Fishing Boats: Memory of Venice	1908	Painting
Fishing Village, Brittany	1883	Painting
Five Butterflies	1912	Drawing
Fleurs	Date unknown	Painting
Fleurs dans un paysage de montagne avec visage	Date unknown	Painting
Fleurs dans un vase	1907	Painting
Fleurs dans un Vase bleu	1903	Painting
Fleurs dans un vase : pivoines	Date unknown	Painting
Fleurs des champs	1906	Painting
Fleurs étranges	1910	Painting
Flower Clouds	1903	Drawing
Flowers in a Japanese Vase	1908	Painting
Flowers in a Vase	1910	Painting
Flowers in Green Vase	Date unknown	Painting
Flowers: Poppies and Daisies	1867	Painting
Frieze of flowers and berries	1901	Painting
Frise de fleurs, marguerite rose	1901	Painting
Frontispiece	1889	Print
Gekruisigde Christus	Date unknown	Drawing
Geraniums and other Flowers in a Stoneware Jug	1910	Painting
Grand Bouquet	1901	Painting
Grand bouquet de fleurs des champs	1903	Painting
Grand panneau à décor végétal, fond clair	1901	Painting
Grand tapis de prière	1908	Painting
Green Death	Date unknown	Painting
Grey frieze	1901	Painting
Groupe de maisons blanches aux toits rouges	Date unknown	Painting
Guardian Spirit of the Waters	1878	Drawing
Hantise (Obsession)	1894	Print
Hélène (Ennoia)	Date unknown	Print
Hommage à Goya. 6 lithographies par Odilon Redon	1885	Print
Icarus	1890	Painting
Il Tombe Dans L'Abime, La Tête En Bas	Date unknown	Print
Il y eut aussi des êtres embryonnaires [Er waren ook embryonale wezens], uit de reeks Hommage à Goya. 6 lithographies par Odilon Redon	1885	Print
Il y eut des luttes et des vaines victoires (There were struggles and vain victories)	1883	Print
Il y eut peut-etre une vision premiere essayee dans la fleur (There was perhaps a first vision attempted in the flower	1883	Print
Immédiatement Surgissent Trois Déesses	Date unknown	Print
Initiation to Study—Two Young Ladies	1905	Painting
J'ai Quelquefois Aperçu Dans Le Ciel Comme Des Formes D'Esprits	Date unknown	Print
Jacob and the Angel	1907	Painting
Jacob's Struggle with the Angel	1910	Painting
Jacob Wrestling with the Angel	1907	Painting
Je Me Suis Enfoncé dans la Solitude. J'habitais L'Arbre Derrière Moi	Date unknown	Print
Je Suis Toujours la Grande Isis! Nul N'A Encore Soulevé Mon Fruit Est Le Soleil	Date unknown	Print
Je t'adore a l'egal de la voute nocturne. O vase de tristesse, o grande taciturne (I adore you as I adore the vault of the night sky, O vessel of sadness, O tall silent woman)	1890	Print
Jésus et la Samaritaine	Date unknown	Painting
L'Aile impuissante n'eleva point la bete en ces noirs espaces (The impotent wing did not lift the animal into that black space	1883	Print
L'Aile (The Wing)	1893	Print
L'ange déchu	1875	Painting
L'ange guerrier	1900	Painting
L'apparition	Date unknown	Painting
L'Araignée souriante	1881	Drawing
L'Arbre	Date unknown	Painting
L'Art Celeste (The Celestial Art)	1894	Print
L'Automne en Médoc	1897	Painting
L'Enlèvement de Ganymède	Date unknown	Painting
L'Intelligence Fut A Moi! Je Devins Le Buddha	Date unknown	Print
La Baie des Trépassés	Date unknown	Painting
La Barque	1900	Painting
La Barque rouge	1900	Painting
La Branche fleurie jaune	1901	Painting
La captive	1914	Painting
La Chute de Phaéton	1906	Painting
La Chute de Phaëton	1910	Painting
La fleur du marécage, une tête humaine et triste [De moerasbloem, een triest menselijk hoofd], uit de reeks Hommage à Goya. 6 lithographies par Odilon Redon	1885	Print
La Mare à Peyrelebade	1897	Painting
La Mer à Morgat	1883	Painting
La Mort: C'est Moi Te Rendes Sérieuse; Enlaçons-Nous	Date unknown	Print
La Mort d'Orphée	1908	Painting
La mort. Mon ironie dépasse toutes les autres!	1890	Painting
La Mort: Mon ironie depasse toutes les autres! (Death: My iron surpasses all others!)	1889	Print
La palme	Date unknown	Painting
La Peur (Fear)	1865	Print
La route de Bièvres	1890	Painting
La sirene sortit des flots vetue de dards (The Siren clothed in barbs, emerged from the waves	1883	Print
La Sulamite (The Shulamite)	1897	Print
La Vieille: Que Crains-tu? Un Large Trou Noir! Il Est Vide Peut-être?	Date unknown	Print
La Vieille: Que Crains-tu? Un large trou Noir! Il est vide peut-etre? (What are you afraid of? A wide black hole! It is empty, perhaps!)	1896	Print
Lady of the Flowers	1892	Painting
Lande avec une mare	Date unknown	Painting
Lande nue	Date unknown	Painting
Landscape	1872	Painting
Landscape	Date unknown	Painting
Landscape at Daybreak	1872	Painting
Landscape with Rocks near Royan	Date unknown	Painting
Large Vase with Flowers	1912	Painting
Le Bouddha	1895	Print
Le Bouddha	1906	Drawing
Le Buddha	1895	Print
Le Centaure à l'arc	Date unknown	Painting
Le Centaure aux coquelicots	1910	Painting
Le centaure et le dragon	Date unknown	Painting
Le char d'Apollon	1905	Painting
Le Chemin à Peyrelebade	Date unknown	Painting
Le Chêne	Date unknown	Painting
Le Coursier (The Race Horse)	1894	Print
Le Gue (The Ford)	1865	Print
Le Jour (Day)	1891	Print
Le Jour Enfin Parait,... Et Dans Le Disque Même Du Soleil, Rayonne La Face de Jésus-Christ	Date unknown	Print
Le Liseur (The reader)	1892	Print
Le paravent rouge (avec Pégase)	Date unknown	Painting
Le pavot noir	Date unknown	Painting
Le Petit Vase vert	Date unknown	Painting
Le Polype difforme flottait sur les rivages, sorte de cyclope souriant et hideux (Thedeformed polyp floated on the shores, a sort of smiling and hideous Cyclops	1883	Print
Le Regard	1901	Painting
Le Regard	1910	Painting
Le Rêve – Fleurs et Visage	1890	Drawing
Le Rocher rose	1880	Painting
Le Satyre au cynique sourire (The Satyr with the cynical smile)	1883	Print
Le Silence	1895	Painting
Le Vitrail	1906	Painting
Les Anemones (Still Life with Anemones)	1905	Painting
Les Bêtes De La Mer Rondes Comme Des Outres	Date unknown	Print
Les Croisés	Date unknown	Painting
Les Landes à Peyrelebade	1885	Painting
Les Parques	Date unknown	Painting
Les Quais à Bordeaux	1900	Painting
Les rochers (Rochers en Bretagne)	1875	Painting
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	Print
Les trois vases bleus	1910	Painting
Liserons et coquelicots dans un petit pichet vert	1866	Painting
Lueur precaire, une tete a l'infini suspendue(Precarious glimmering, a head suspended	1891	Print
Lumière	Date unknown	Print
Lumiere (Light)	1893	Print
Madame Arthur Fontaine (Marie Escudier, born 1865)	1901	Painting
Madame Odilon Redon	1882	Painting
maison avec deux arbres	Date unknown	Painting
Marguerites	1901	Painting
Marguerites et baies de Sorbier	1901	Painting
Maurice Denis	1903	Print
Médoc, arbres dans la prairie	Date unknown	Painting
Médoc, l'arbre	Date unknown	Painting
Médoc, la lande	Date unknown	Painting
Médoc, le bouquet d'arbres	Date unknown	Painting
Melancholy	1868	Drawing
Mes Baisers ont le Gout d'un Fruit Qui Se Fondrait Dans Ton Coeur!...	Date unknown	Print
Meules couvertes de bâches près d'un arbre	Date unknown	Painting
Mme Sabouraud (Thérèse Balandier)	1907	Drawing
Mon Enfant (My Child)	1892	Print
Montagnes des Pyrénées	Date unknown	Painting
Morgat vue des dunes de la Palue	Date unknown	Painting
moulin en Bretagne	Date unknown	Painting
Mystery	1910	Painting
Mystical Conversation	1896	Painting
Nasturtium	1905	Painting
Nature morte	1901	Painting
Navet	1875	Painting
Noce juive au Maroc	Date unknown	Painting
Nocturne	Date unknown	Painting
Nuages clairs sur une lande	Date unknown	Painting
Oannès	1905	Painting
Oannès	1908	Painting
Oannes and the Sphinx	1910	Painting
Oannès: Moi, La Première Conscience Du Chaos, J'ai Surgi de L'Abime Pour Durcir la Matière, Pour Régler les Formes	Date unknown	Print
Offrande	Date unknown	Painting
Old Man With Wings and Beard or Winged Old Man with a Long White Beard	1870	Drawing
Ophelia	1901	Painting
Ophelia	1905	Painting
Ophelia	Date unknown	Painting
Ophelia among the Flowers	c. 1905–1908	Drawing
Ophelia with a Blue Wimple in the Water	1900	Painting
Orphée	1910	Painting
Orphée	Date unknown	Painting
Orpheus	1903	Drawing
Pandora	1910/1912	Painting
Panneau décoratif	1902	Painting
Pansies	1905	Drawing
Papillons	1910	Painting
Paravent d'Olivier Sainsère	1903	Painting
Parfois on trouve un vieux flacon qui se souvient, d'ou jaillit toute vive une ame qui revient (Sometimes one finds an old reminiscing flask, whence issues in full life a returning soul)	1890	Print
Parsifal	1892	Print
Passage d'une Ame (Passage of a Spirit)	1891	Print
Paul Gauguin	1904	Painting
Paul Serusier	1903	Print
Paysage de Venise	1908	Painting
Pégase et l'Hydre	1900	Painting
Pegasus	1914	Painting
Pegasus and the Hydra	1907	Painting
Pegasus, the Horse on the Rock	1908	Drawing
Pélerin du monde sublunaire (Pilgrim of the sublunary world)	1891	Print
Perversité	1891	Print
Perversite (Perversity)	1891	Print
Petite fille tricotant	Date unknown	Painting
Peupliers à Peyrelebade	Date unknown	Painting
Peyrelebade	1888	Painting
Pierre Bonnard	1900	Print
Piety Beside a Red Tree	1905	Painting
Pivoine, géranium et lilas	Date unknown	Painting
Plante verte dans une urne	Date unknown	Painting
Pond in les Landes	1880	Painting
Port breton	Date unknown	Painting
Portrait d'Arï Redon au col marin	1897	Painting
Portrait d'Arï Redon en profil	1892	Print
Portrait de Jeanne Chaine	1903	Drawing
Portrait de jeune fille sur fond d'arcatures	1911	Painting
Portrait de Madame Redon	1911	Painting
Portrait de Paule Gobillard	1908	Drawing
Portrait of A.M.L. Bonger-van der Linden	1905	Painting
Portrait of Emile Bernard	1901	Drawing
Profil de jeune fille parmi les fleurs	1905	Painting
Profil de lumiere (Profile of light)	1886	Print
Profile	Date unknown	Painting
Profile and Flowers	1912	Drawing
Profile of a Woman with a Vase of Flowers	1900	Painting
Profile on Red Meanders (formery known as Jeanne d'Arc) (see Google Books)	1900	Drawing
Prophète	Date unknown	Painting
Puis l'ange prit l'encensoir (And the angel took the censer)	1899	Print
Quadrige, le char d’Apollon	1909	Painting
Quand s'eveillait la Vie au Fon de la matiere obscure (When life was awakening in the depths of obscure matter	1883	Print
Reflections	1903	Drawing
rocher en Bretagne	Date unknown	Painting
Rocher sur la grève	Date unknown	Painting
Rochers de Vallières, près de Royan	Date unknown	Painting
Rochers en Bretagne	1884	Painting
Rochers près de Royan	Date unknown	Painting
Rochers sur la plage	Date unknown	Painting
Rocks on the Beach	1883	Painting
Rocky Peak	1875	Painting
Rocky Slope	Date unknown	Painting
Roger and Angelica	1910	Drawing
Roger et Angélique	Date unknown	Painting
Roger Marx	1904	Print
Roland à Ronceveaux	1862	Painting
Rose, iris et marguerites dans un vase vert	Date unknown	Painting
rue à Saint-Georges-de-Didonne	Date unknown	Painting
Rue de village	1875	Painting
Rue Douarnenez	1880	Painting
Sailboats (Allegorical Landscape)	1907	Painting
Saint Anthony and the Two Temptresses (Saint Antoine et deux Tentatrices)	1896	Drawing
Saint-Antoine...A travers ses longs cheveux qui lui couvraient la figure, j'ai cru reconnaitre Ammonaria (Saint Anthony: "Beneathe her long hair , which covered her face, I thought I recognized Ammonaria)	1889	Print
Saint-Antoine: Au Secours Mon Dieu!	Date unknown	Print
Saint George and the Dragon	Date unknown	Drawing
Saint George and the Dragon (Saint Georges et le dragon)	1909	Painting
Saint Jean	1910	Drawing
Saint John	1900	Painting
Saint Sebastian	1900	Painting
Saint Sebastian	1910	Painting
Saint Sebastian (Basel)	1910	Painting
Saint Sébastien	1910	Painting
Salomé	1910	Painting
Sans cesse a mes cotes s'agite le demon (Ceaselessly by my side the demon stirs)	1890	Print
Seated Man	Date unknown	Painting
Self-portrait	1867	Painting
Self-portrait	1880	Painting
Self-portrait	1885	Painting
Si par une nuit lourde et sombre, un bon chretien, par charite, derriere quelque vieux decombre, enterre votre corps voute (If on a close dark night a good Christian, out of charity, behind some old ruin, buries your arched body)	1890	Print
Silence	1911	Painting
Siren	1900	Painting
Small Grey Panel I	1901	Painting
Small Grey Panel II	1901	Painting
Sommeil de Caliban	1895	Painting
Sous-bois au printemps	Date unknown	Painting
Sous l'aile d'ombre	Date unknown	Print
Sous l'aile d'ombre, l'etre noir appliquait une active morsure (Beneath the wing of shadow the black creature was biting energetically)	1891	Print
Spring	1907	Painting
Still Life with Flowers	1905	Painting
Still Life with Fruit	1905	Painting
stillife	Date unknown	Painting
Sur le fond de nos nuits dieu de son doigt savant dessine un cauchemar multiforme et sans treve (On backdrop of our nights God with His knowing finger traces a multiform implacable nightmare)	1890	Print
Symbolic Head	1890	Painting
Tete d'Enfant avec Fleurs (Head of a Child with Flowers)	1897	Print
Tete d'Enfant (Head of a Child)	1899	Print
Tête d'Orphée	Date unknown	Painting
The Angel Raphael Leaving Tobit and His Family	1862	Painting
The Birth of Venus	1906	Painting
The Birth of Venus	1912	Painting
The Book of Light	1893	Drawing
The Buddha	1904	Painting
The Chariot of Apollo	1905–1916	Painting
The Chariot of Apollo series	Date unknown	Painting
The chariot of the Sun	1910	Painting
The Crucifixion	1904	Painting
The Cyclops	c. 1914	Painting
The Death of Orpheus	1904	Painting
The Devil (Le Diable)	1896	Drawing
The Dog	1896	Print
The Fisherwoman	Date unknown	Drawing
The Flowers in a Blue Vase	1913	Drawing
The Golden Cell	1892	Painting
The Gothic Window	1900	Painting
The Green Vase	Date unknown	Painting
The Grey Sail	Date unknown	Painting
The Haunting (Hantise)	1893	Artwork
The Headhunter and His Family	1870	Drawing
The Mount of Calvary	1895	Drawing
The Muse on Pegasus	1908	Painting
The Port of Morgat	1882	Painting
The Potted Geranium	1865	Painting
The Prayer	1893	Painting
The Queen of Sheba (La Reine de Saba)	1896	Drawing
The Red Boat	1910	Painting
The Red Man	1905	Painting
The red poppy	1895	Painting
The Red Tree	1905	Painting
The Sea in Brittany	Date unknown	Painting
The Shadow (L'Ombre)	1896	Drawing
The Tree	1875	Painting
The Two Graces	1900	Painting
The Winged Man	1890	Painting
The Yellow Sail	1905	Painting
Three Fates	1900	Painting
Trees in Bièvres	Date unknown	Painting
Trees in the Blue Sky	1883	Painting
Triumph of Truth	1870	Painting
Tronc d'arbre dans la plaine	Date unknown	Painting
Two Dancers	Date unknown	Painting
Two Young Girls among Flowers	1912	Painting
Un étrange jongleur [Een vreemde evenwichtskunstenaar], uit de reeks Hommage à Goya. 6 lithographies par Odilon Redon	1885	Print
Underwater Vision	1910	Painting
Une femme revêtue du Soleil (A woman clothed with the sun)	1899	Print
Une longue chrysalide couleur de sang (A longchrysalis, the color of blood)	1889	Print
Vase de fleurs	1915	Painting
Vase de fleurs	Date unknown	Painting
Vase of Flowers	1867	Painting
Vase of Flowers	1890	Painting
Vase of Flowers	1901	Painting
Vase of Flowers	1904	Painting
Vase of Flowers	1905	Painting
Vase of Flowers, after Cézanne	1896	Painting
Vase of Flowers (Pink Background)	c. 1906	Painting
Vase with Bindweed and Camomile	1867	Painting
Vase with Wild Flowers	1900	Drawing
Vieil arbre dans une prairie	Date unknown	Painting
Vierge	1916	Painting
Vieux Chevalier (Old Knight)	1896	Print
Village by the Sea in Brittany	1880	Painting
Village dans les Basses-Pyrénées	Date unknown	Painting
Village Square, Brittany	1883	Painting
Village sur la côte de Bretagne	Date unknown	Painting
Vision	1890	Painting
Vision dans les nuages	1900	Painting
Vision- vase of flowers	1900	Painting
Voici La Bonne-Déesse, L'Idéenne des Montagnes	Date unknown	Print
Volupte, Fantome Elastique! (Pleasure, elastic phantom!)	1890	Print
Wildflowers	1905	Drawing
Wildflowers in a Long Neck Vase	Date unknown	Painting
Window	1907	Painting
Winged Horse	1895	Print
With Closed Eyes	Date unknown	Painting
Woman in a gothic arcade- woman with flowers	1905	Painting
Yellow frieze	1901	Painting
Yeux Clos (Closed Eyes)	1890	Print
Young Man (Jeune Homme)	1896	Drawing
Young Woman in Profile	1910	Drawing
Young woman standing	Date unknown	Painting

Frequently Asked Questions

References

1. Metropolitan Museum of Art, “The Chariot of Apollo.”, accessed 30 August 2026.
2. Musée d'Orsay, “Redon 1840–1916.”, accessed 30 August 2026.
3. J. Paul Getty Museum, “Odilon Redon: Otherworldly Visions — Gallery Text” (2026), accessed 30 August 2026.
4. Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Pegasus and Bellerophon.”, accessed 30 August 2026.
5. Alfred H. Barr Jr. et al., Odilon Redon, Gustave Moreau, Rodolphe Bresdin (Museum of Modern Art, 1961), accessed 30 August 2026.

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