Country Landscape
n.d.
Medium
Pen and black ink, on cream tracing paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
8.5 × 16 cm (3 3/8 × 6 5/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
64512
Art Historical Context
Rodolphe Bresdin *Country Landscape* (n.d.) is a delicate pen and ink drawing that captures the artist's mastery of intricate line work, evoking the Romantic spirit of 19th-century. Born in 1822, Bresdin was a visionary draftsman and engraver whoseical visions influenced later Symbolists like Odilon Red. Though undated, this small-scale work—measuring just 8.5 × 16 cm—likely dates to his mature period, when he favored highly detailed landscapes blending the pastoral with the otherworldly. Executed in pen and black ink on cream tracing paper, then laid down on ivory wove paper, the piece highl...
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...