The Forest of Fontainebleau

Description

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

The Forest of Fontainebleau

Rodolphe Bresdin

1880

Accession Number

8059

Medium

Etching and drypoint in black ink 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.)

Classification

etching

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Walter S. Brewster