Provenance

André Bonger, Amsterdam, by descent to

Mme. André Bonger-van Gogh, Almen, The Netherlands

The New Gallery, 1960

Private collection, New York, until 2012

Exhibitions

Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, Odilon Redon, October 1956 – January 1957, cat. no. 24

The Hague, Stedelijk Museum, Odilon Redon, 1957, cat. no. 10

The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, Dienst voor Schone Kunsten, May 1957, cat. no. 22

Berne, Kunsthalle, Odilon Redon, 1840-1916, August 9 – October 12, 1958, cat. no. 25

Poughkeepsie, Vassar College Art Museum, and New York, Wildenstein, Vassar Centennial Loan Exhibition, 1961, cat. no. 97, illustrated

New York, Museum of Modern Art, and Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Odilon Redon, Gustave Moreau, Rodolphe Bresdin, 1961-62, p. 176, cat. no. 95

Literature

M. D. Henkel, “Die Sammlung A. Bonger in Amsterdam,” in Der Cicerone, 1930, p. 602, pl. 6

D. A. de Graaf, “Odilon Redon,” in Apollo, (The Hague edition), May 1940, p. 22, illustrated

R. Bacou, Odilon Redon, Geneva, 1956, I, p. 72, n. 1; vol. II, no. 32, fig. 32

R. L. Herbert, Seurat’s Drawings, 1962, p. 78, illustrated

R. Bacou, “The Bonger Collection at Almen, Holland,” in Apollo,  November 1964, no. 80, p. 401, fig. 5

K. Berger, Odilon Redon, Fantasie und Farbe, Cologne, 1964, no. 591

“The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Odilon Redon,” in Mead Museum Monographs, vol. II, Autumn 1980, pp. 29-30, fig. 7

D. Gamboni, La Plume et le pinceau.  Odilon Redon et la literature, Paris, 1989, fig. 34

Seurat, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1991, p. 98, fig. 21

A. Wildenstein, Odilon Redon:  Catalogue Raisonné de L'Oeuvre Peint et Dessiné, Vol. II:  Mythes et légendes, Paris, 1994, p. 161, cat. no. 1068 (as Le Prisonnier à La Lucarne), illustrated

PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW YORK