{"id":18336,"date":"2023-05-18T14:36:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T18:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=18336"},"modified":"2023-06-07T15:09:43","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T19:09:43","slug":"rodolphe-bresdin-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/rodolphe-bresdin-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodolphe Bresdin Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color\">Rodolphe Bresdin (French, 1822-1885)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Rodolphe Bresdin is known for his meticulously executed prints and sketches. Scenes of people in fantastical landscapes, interiors of rural homes, small villages, peasant huts, and Biblical themes dominate Bresdin&#8217;s artwork, portrayed in minute detail. Many of his prints contain highly worked areas, as well as distorted perspective and whimsical, almost fairy-tale-like settings.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bresdin himself led a nomadic existence, shifting residences every few months. Contemporaries like Charles Baudelaire, Th\u00e9ophile Gautier, and Victor Hugo all praised Bresdin, though he operated independently of any school. His more than 200 prints would later have a big impact on the Symbolists and Surrealists of the early-twentieth century who also employed distorted and whimsical imagery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-6 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1989.8.1.a.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" data-id=\"18286\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1989.8.1.a.webp\" alt=\"Leonard Baskin, Rodolphe Bresdin, n.d., Etching, 8 3\/4 x 5 3\/4 in., Bates College Museum of Art, gift of John and Janet Marquess, 1989.8.1.a\n\" class=\"wp-image-18286\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Leonard Baskin, <em>Rodolphe Bresdin<\/em>, n.d., Etching, 8 3\/4 x 5 3\/4 in., Bates College Museum of Art, gift of John and Janet Marquess, 1989.8.1.a <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rodolphe Bresdin (French, 1822-1885) Rodolphe Bresdin is known for his meticulously executed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":0,"parent":1152,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-18336","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18336"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19451,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18336\/revisions\/19451"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}