The Forest of Fontainebleau

Prints and Drawings

1880

Rodolphe Bresdin
French, 1825-1885

This haunting etching presents an altogether different vision of the Fontainebleau forest than that portrayed by the Barbizon painters.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Rodolphe Bresdin
Title: The Forest of Fontainebleau
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.: Made 1880
Medium: Etching and drypoint on cream laid paper
Dimensions: Image: 20.2 × 14.8 cm (8 × 5 7/8 in.); Sheet: 22.6 × 17.3 cm (8 15/16 × 6 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Walter S. Brewster
Reference Number: 1923.176
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Boon 64

van Gelder 142

Bibliotheque Nationale 31

Neumann 30

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