Flemish Interior
1856
Medium
Lithograph (etching transfer) on light gray China paper laid down on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 15.9 × 10.5 cm (6 5/16 × 4 3/16 in.); Chine: 18.9 × 12.4 cm (7 1/2 × 4 15/16 in.); Sheet: 32.7 × 25.1 cm (12 7/8 × 9 15/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
27803
Art Historical Context
Rodolphe Bresdin’s *Flemish Interior*1856) offers a captivating glimpse into a meticulously rendered domestic scene, evoking the quiet intimacy of seventeenth-century Flemish painting traditions. Created during a period when printmaking was flourishing as both an artistic and accessible medium, work reflects the nineteenth-century fascination with styles reinterpreted through modern techniques. Bresdin, working in France, employed an etching-transfer process to achieve the fine detail and tonal richness typically associated with more labor-intensive methods. The lithograph’s delicate executio...
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...