Battle on a Rocky Plain
Rodolphe Bresdin
(French, 1822–1885)
Medium/TechniqueEtching
DimensionsSheet: 14.1 × 27.1 cm (5 9/16 × 10 11/16 in.)
Credit LineKatherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard
Accession number2018.31
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ProvenanceAbout 1919, probably given or sold by the artist’s daughter, Rodolphine Bresdin (b. 1859 – d. 1926), to Alexandre Merlot, called Ary Leblond (b. 1877 – d. 1958), Saint-Pierre, La Réunion, France [see note]. 2014, private collection, France; June 19, 2014, anonymous (French private collection) sale (auction 261), Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, part of lot 225, sold to Eric Gillis Fine Art, Brussels; 2018, sold by Eric Gillis Fine Art to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 21, 2018)
NOTE: Three Bresdin prints were sold together in 2014, one of which bore the artist’s blindstamp and a dedication to Ary Leblond from Rodolphine Bresdin. She sold a number of her father’s drawings to Leblond in 1919. See Dirk van Gelder, Rodolphe Bresdin: Monographie en trois parties (The Hague, 1976), vol. 1, p. 11, n. 12.
NOTE: Three Bresdin prints were sold together in 2014, one of which bore the artist’s blindstamp and a dedication to Ary Leblond from Rodolphine Bresdin. She sold a number of her father’s drawings to Leblond in 1919. See Dirk van Gelder, Rodolphe Bresdin: Monographie en trois parties (The Hague, 1976), vol. 1, p. 11, n. 12.
