Landschap met visser
1843 - 1844
Medium
etching
Dimensions
113; 83
About this artwork
verzamelaarsmerk, recto rechtsonder, met blindstempel: Lugt 2194
Art Historical Context
**Landschap met visserLandscape with a Fisherman)** *Rodolphe Bresdin 1843–1844, etching, 83 × 113 mm* Step into the intricate world of Rodolphedin's *Landschap met viss*, a delicate etching from the early 1840s. This French artist's small-scale print captures a serene landscape featuring a fisherman, evoking the Romantic fascination with nature's quiet poetry. Bresdin, often called a visionary draftsman, crafted works that blend meticulous detail with imaginative depth, bridging Romanticism and the emerging Symbolist tendencies that would influence later masters like Odilon Redon. Etching...
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...