Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005897Exotic Landscape
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower right, in pen and brown-black ink: "RB"; lower right on mount, in graphite, two lines of text (erased): "à notre grand ville / notre grand ami / Ludovic Abel Coustols [?] / Le Docteur"; in graphite: "En mémoire de mon père / Rodolphine Bresdin / août 1919"; verso, upper right on mount: "7 O W" [?]
Provenance
Estate of the artist [dry stamp (Lugt 2194) recto, lower right]; Rodolphine Bresdin. Sold, Bateau Lavoir, Paris, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA, July 18, 1963; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
Art Gallery of Ontario, "The Sacred and Profane in Symbolist Art," Nov. 1–26, 1926, cat. 53.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Rodolphe Bresdin / French, 1825–1885
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- Pen and black ink on tan tracing paper (both sides), laid down on cream wove paper, tipped on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- Primary/secondary supports: 9 × 15.2 cm (3 9/16 × 6 in.); Tertiary support: 26.7 × 37.2 cm (10 9/16 × 14 11/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.904
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