Kaal rotslandschap, op de voorgrond links een waterval

About this artwork

…; from the dealer J.H.J. Mellaart, Borgharen, Limburg, fl. 500, with three other drawings, to the museum, 1944

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...