The Holy Family
Rodolphe Bresdin
n.d.
Medium
Etching in dark blue on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 5.9 × 6.3 cm (2 3/8 × 2 1/2 in.); Sheet: 35.8 × 26.2 cm (14 1/8 × 10 3/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
105232
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...