Art Institute of Chicago
Battle in the Mountains
Rodolphe BresdinLinkedCulture matchlcp-1b68b3f7bc24
- Date
- 1857
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, on tan wove tracing paper, laid down on cream wove paper
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 18664
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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- Credit line
- Worcester Sketch Fund
- Provenance
- Roger Marx (1859-1913), Paris; by descent to his son, Claude Roger-Marx (died 1977), Paris [invoice]. Sold by Nathan Chaikin to the Art Institute, 1963.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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