Rodolphe Bresdin
French, 1825-1885
Battle in the Mountains
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Rodolphe Bresdin
French, 1825-18851857
Battle in the Mountains
Rodolphe Bresdin French, 1825-1885 →pen and ink drawingsdrawings (visual works)
Date
1857
Medium
Pen and black ink, on tan wove tracing paper, laid down on cream wove paper
Dimensions
29.5 × 25.1 cm (11 5/8 × 9 15/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Worcester Sketch Fund
Bresdin, the eccentric "poet" of Romantic landscape, was an outsider who had more of a connection with writers such as Baudelaire, Champfleury, Gautier, and Victor Hugo than among artists, with the exception of his loyal disciple, Odilon Redon.
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