A North American Indian (Study for historiated A in "Les chefs-d'oeuvre d'art à l'Exposition universelle 1878")
Rodolphe Bresdin
1878
Medium
Pen and black ink, over traces of red chalk and graphite, on ivory wove paper, laid down on card
Dimensions
16.8 × 13.7 cm (6 5/8 × 5 7/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
96220
Rights
Public Domain
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...