Intérieur (Interior)
19th century
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Mount: 9 3/4 × 13 3/4 in. (24.8 × 35 cm) Sheet: 2 5/8 × 4 in. (6.6 × 10.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The J. B. Neumann Collection, Gift of Dr. Franz H. Hirschland, 1952
Accession Number
52.508.38
Tags
Art Historical Context
Rodolphe Bresdin'sIntérieur (Interior)* a delicate 19th-century etching invites viewers into a meticulously rendered domestic scene, capturing the intimate poetry of everyday. Created during the height of French Romanticism and the rise of printmaking as an accessible art form, this small work (sheet: 2 5/8 × 4 in.) exemplifies Bresdin's visionary style. A reclusive master etcher and lithographer admired by artists like Odilon Redon Bresdin infused his prints with fantastical detail and dreamlike precision, transforming ordinary interiors into realms of quiet wonder. Etching, Bresdin's favore...
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...