Le cours d'eau
Rodolphe Bresdin
1880
Medium
etching
Dimensions
208; 135; 182; 283
About this artwork
In tegenstelling tot de andere twee afdrukken van de etsplaat in de collectie van het RMA staat de boomtop van de boom rechts volledig op deze prent (vergelijk RP-P-1949-269 en RP-P-1948-93).
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...