A face of a man with closed eyes, in darkness Below the image the text 'John : I, the first consciousness in Chaos, have risen from the bottomless pit to solidify matter, to determine forms' Fourteenth print of twenty-four from the third series of illustrations for Gustave Flaubert's The Temptation of Saint Anthony, I, the first consciousness in chaos Oannes: Moi, la premiere conscience du Chaos, j'ai surgi de l'abme pour durcir la matiere, pour r, print maker: Odilon Redon, (mentioned on object), printer: Blanchard, publisher: Henri Louis Ambroise Vollard, print maker: France, printer: Paris

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