The Great Battle
Rodolphe Bresdin
c. 1883
Medium
Original gelatin plate worked in drypoint
Dimensions
216 (right); 217 (left) × 309 mm
Classification
drypoint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
39893
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...