Staande dame in lange japon
Rodolphe Bresdin
1832 - 1885
Medium
pen
Dimensions
62; 31
About this artwork
Purchased with the support of the 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...