Studie voor een allegorie op de Republiek: vrouw met boek op haar schoot
Rodolphe Bresdin
1880 - 1883
Medium
pen
Dimensions
165; 98
About this artwork
hoogte 165 mm x breedte 98 mm
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...