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The Old Woman: What are you afraid of? A wide black hole! Perhaps it is a void! (La vielle: que crains tu? Un large trou noir! Il est vide peut-etre!), from the series Tentation de Saint-Antoine
The Old Woman: What are you afraid of? A wide black hole! Perhaps it is a void! (La vielle: que crains tu? Un large trou noir! Il est vide peut-etre!), from the series Tentation de Saint-Antoine

The Old Woman: What are you afraid of? A wide black hole! Perhaps it is a void! (La vielle: que crains tu? Un large trou noir! Il est vide peut-etre!), from the series Tentation de Saint-Antoine

Artist/Maker (French, 1840–1916)
Date1896
MediumLithograph on chine-collé
DimensionsImage: 6 1/2 × 4 3/16 in. (16.5 × 10.6 cm)
Sheet: 17 1/4 × 12 7/8 in. (43.8 × 32.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Genevieve Brandt (OC 1904)
PortfolioIllustration to Gustave Flaubert, Tentation de Saint Antoine, plate XIX
Object number1938.11
Status
Not on view
Exhibition History
'La Reverie esthetique': Symbolist Works on Paper
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (March 29, 1988 - May 22, 1988 )
Dreams and Visions: Expressing the Inexplicable
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 9, 1997 - October 19, 1997 )
Between Fact and Fantasy: The Artistic Imagination in Print
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (January 17, 2014 - June 22, 2014 )
Collections
  • European