Seascape
Rodolphe Bresdin
1801 to 1825
Medium
pen and ink on tracing paper
Dimensions
Overall (approximate): 19.2 x 13.2 cm (7 9/16 x 5 3/16 in.) support: 21.1 x 15.1 cm (8 5/16 x 5 15/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1950.16.15
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...