Drie mannen op jacht naar vogels
1832 - 1885
Medium
pen
Dimensions
73; 35
About this artwork
hoogte 35 mm x breedte 73 mm
Art Historical Context
**Drie mannen op j naar vogels** (Three Men Hunting Birds) is a delicate pen drawing by the French visionary artist Rodolphe Bresdin, created sometime between 1832 and1885. Measuring just 35 mm high by 73 mm wide, miniature work exemplifies Bresdin's mastery of intricate line work on a tiny scale, inviting viewers to lean in close for its subtle details. The title evokes a simple rural scene of three men pursuing birds, yet Bresdin's style often infused everyday motifs with a dreamlike, fantastical quality, bridging Romanticism and Symbolism. Bresdin, active in 19th-century France, was renown...
About the Artist
Rodolphe Bresdin · 1822–1885
Rodolphe Bresdin (1822–1885) was a visionary French draughtsman, engraver, and lithographer whose fantastical imagery captured the empathy of rural poverty and the wild exuberance of the imagination. Born on August 12, 1822, in Montrelais near Le Fresne-sur-Loire in Brittany, he grew up in the Breton countryside amid its bardic folklore traditions before a family dispute left him homeless in Paris...