La Sainte Famille aux cerfs
Rodolphe Bresdin
1899
Medium
lithography
Dimensions
200; 260
About this artwork
Aankoop uit het F.G. Waller-Fonds
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...