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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1993.147
People
Rodolphe Bresdin, French (La Fresne, France 1822 - 1885 Sèvres, France)
Title
"Baigneuses au Ruisseau" (Study for the etching Bathers in the Mountains)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294501

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
Dimensions
actual: 13.2 x 14.3 cm (5 3/16 x 5 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r., black ink: Bresdin
  • blind stamp: l.r. corner of drawing and mount: RB [monogram] [not in Lugt]
  • stamp: lower right of mount, blue ink, stamped: J. Fred. B.
  • inscription: lower edge of mount, graphite, inscribed: Bresdin / afgebeeld in MBKb / 1929 / Baigneuses au Ruisseau
  • inscription: mat, l.r. of sheet, red ink, inscribed: T. 21
  • inscription: l.r. of mount, graphite, inscribed: Baigneuses au [partially erased]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Rodolphe Bresdin. estate stamp (not in Lugt)
Paul Bresdin. artist's son
D. G. Santee Landweer, Amsterdam, 1930. Provenance uncertain
J. Fred Bianchi, Amsterdam. Sale: Amsterdam, 23-27 November 1964, lot 848
Adolph Schwarz, Amsterdam-Amstelveen.
Robert M. Light and Co., Santa Barbara, CA.
Vermeer Associates Limited, Brampton, Ontario, purchased from R.M. Light & Co., 1991, sold to HUAM, 1993. Long term loan to HUAM from June 1991 to 1993

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Purchase Fund and Richard Norton Memorial Fund
Accession Year
1993
Object Number
1993.147
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
There is a more finished drawing of the same subject at the Art Institute of Chicago, Baigneuses dans la Montagne.

Publication History

  • D. G. Santee Landweer, "Bij een aantal teekeningen van Rodolphe Bresdin", Maandblad voor beeldende kunsten, J.H. de Bussy (Amsterdam, 1929), vol. 6, no. 12, pp. 363-372, p. 370, repr. fig. 11
  • J. W. Niemeijer, De Verzameling van A. Schwarz, exh. cat., Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1968), p. 11, cat. no. 21, repr. fig. 26
  • Dirk van Gelder, Rodolphe Bresdin, Martinus Nijhoff (La Haye, 1976), vol. 1, pp. 80-81, fig. 80; vol. 2, p. 86
  • Dirk van Gelder and John Sillevis, Rodolphe Bresdin: 1822-1885, exh. cat., Staatsuitgeverij ('s-Gravenhage, 1978), p. 169, cat. no. 154, repr.

Exhibition History

  • De Verzameling van A. Schwarz, Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 09/01/1968 - 12/31/1968
  • Rodolphe Bresdin: 1822-1885, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, 10/27/1978 - 01/14/1979
  • Collecting for Harvard: Works Acquired through the Generosity of Melvin R. Seiden, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/03/1993 - 08/15/1993

Verification Level

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