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1856
Medium
etching
Dimensions
142; 160; 79; 223
About this artwork
height 79 mm x width 142 mm
Art Historical Context
**Groot leger rukt op naar links vlakte in landschapLarge Army Advances to the Left on a Plain in Landscape)** *Rodolphe Bresdin, 1856, etching, 79 × 142 mm* Step into the intricate world of Rodolphedin, a visionary French printmaker of the 19th century, with this captivating small-scale etching from 1856. The title evokes a dramatic scene: a grand army surging leftward across an open plain, set within a sprawling landscape. Bresdin, often overlooked in his time but later revered by artists like Auguste Rodin and Odilon Redon, specialized in fantastical, densely packed compositions that ble...
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...