The Good Samaritan
Rodolphe Bresdin
1861
Medium
lithograph on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 56.5 x 44.4 cm (22 1/4 x 17 1/2 in.) sheet: 76.5 x 61.7 cm (30 1/8 x 24 5/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of David P. Becker
Accession Number
2011.41.2
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...