Alms to the Poor

Prints and Drawings

n.d.

Rodolphe Bresdin
French, 1825-1885

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Rodolphe Bresdin
Title: Alms to the Poor
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1845–1885
Medium: Pen and black ink, on tan tracing paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions: 10.7 × 13.9 cm (4 1/4 × 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Print and Drawing Club Fund
Reference Number: 1949.59
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By descent to the artist’s son, Paul Bresdin; sold to Pierre Alexandre Regnault (died 1954), Laren, Holland, 1929; sold to a private collector, Holland and New York; sold to Louis Black of Goulston & Storrs, Boston [all provenance is according to a letter from Louis Black to Carl Schniewind dated April 4, 1949 in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1949.

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