Exotic Landscape
n.d.
Medium
Pen and black ink on tan tracing paper (both sides), laid down on cream wove paper, tipped on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Primary/secondary supports: 9 × 15.2 cm (3 9/16 × 6 in.); Tertiary support: 26.7 × 37.2 cm (10 9/16 × 14 11/16 in.)
Classification
prints and drawing
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
185827
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...