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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2017.86
People
Rodolphe Bresdin, French (La Fresne, France 1822 - 1885 Sèvres, France)
Title
Hunters Surprised by Death
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Les Chasseurs Surpris par la Mort
Title: Illustration to "La Revue Fantaisiste"
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1857
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/358154

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 14 × 8 cm (5 1/2 × 3 1/8 in.)
sheet: 14.4 × 8.4 cm (5 11/16 × 3 5/16 in.)
mount: 29.9 × 22 cm (11 3/4 × 8 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: on mount, below print, graphite: aux grands Amis M. A. Leblond / Hommage et souvenir en /
    mémoire de mon Père / Rudolphine Bresdin
  • inscription: on mount, lower left, graphite: les chasseurs surpris par le mort / V. G. 88 II / signe date B a G
  • inscription: on mount, bottom, graphite: LeBan [illeg.]
  • inscription: on mount, lower right, graphite: a garder
  • inscription: on mount, lower right, graphite: VG88 / cc/86
  • blind stamp: lower right: R[reversed] Bft [encircled] [Lugt 2194]
  • inscription: in plate, lower left: RoDolphe Bresdin 1857 / fecit et imprime
  • inscription: in plate, below image, lower right: Imp Delatre Paris [barely legible]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Rodolphe Bresdin (Lugt 2194), Chien-Caillou, to; his daughter, Rodolphine Bresdin [1], 1885, gift; to Marius-Ary Leblond (Georges Athénas and Aimé Merlo), Réunion and Paris. [2] Private Collection, France, sold [through Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, June 19, 2014, lot 225], sold; to Private Collector, Belgium, sold; to [Eric Gillis Fine Art, Brussels], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2017

Notes
[1] [Julie] Rodolphine Bresdin (1859-1926)

[2] Georges Athénas (1877-1953); Aimé Merlot (1880-1958)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
iv/vi
Standard Reference Number
Van Gelder 88

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
Accession Year
2017
Object Number
2017.86
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 150 ausgewählte Kunstwerke des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, auct. cat., Galerie Kornfeld (Bern, June 20, 2014), p. 37, lot 225, repr.

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