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Le cours d'eau
The Stream
Le cours d'eau
Rodolphe Bresdin (French, 1822–1885)
1880
Medium/Technique
Etching on off-white chine appliqué
Dimensions
Platemark: 13.5 x 21 cm (5 5/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 30.5 x 43 cm (12 x 16 15/16 in.)
Sheet: 30.5 x 43 cm (12 x 16 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Katherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard
Accession Number2009.2224
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Van Gelder 144; Préaud 108
Signed
In plate, lower left: "RoDolphe BresDiN 1880 fecit"
InscriptionsRecto, in graphite, l.l: "R. Bresdin" [not by artist]; in graphite, below: VG 144 Le Cours d'Eau (Bouv. 37) (eau-forte) VG 144 [not by artist]
ProvenanceAlfred Beurdeley (1847-1919, Lugt 421); Beurdeley estate print sales (1920-21); by 1989, Paul Prouté, Paris, cat. "Fragonard" (1989); to Samuel Josefowitz (Lausanne, Switzerland & Whitchurch-on-Thames, England); to R. M. Light & Co. (Santa Barbara, CA); 2009, sold by R. M. Light & Co. to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 25, 2009)