In 1900, Redon turned sixty. The painter and engraver had spent much of his life working on small canvases and paper, but a commission from the Baron Robert de Domecy called for him to scale up his work. Redon completed 15 panels for Domecy’s château in Yonne. In a letter to his friend Albert Bonger he described the work: “I am covering the walls of a dining room with flowers, flowers of dreams, fauna of the imagination; all in large panels, treated with a bit of everything, distemper, “aoline", oil, even with pastel which is giving good results at the moment, a giant pastel.”
