The Good Samaritan
Medium
Lithograph; early impression of first state (Van Gelder)
Dimensions
Sheet: 25 1/8 × 18 1/2 in. (63.8 × 47 cm) Image: 22 1/4 × 17 1/2 in. (56.5 × 44.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund and the Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1979
Accession Number
1979.573
About the Artist
Rodolphe Bresdin|Lemercier & Cie. · 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...