L’Armée romaine
Artwork details
- Artist
- Rodolphe Bresdin
- Title
- L’Armée romaine
- Description
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The Revue fantaisiste was a short-lived literary review offering some of the cream of avant-guard French writers, such as Baudelaire, Gautier and the Goncourts, who called themselves les Parnassiens. Across the span of its nineteen issues it also offered fourteen etchings by Bresdin to subscribers. It was Baudelaire who contracted with Bresdin to provide his fantastic illustrations. The minutiae and peculiarity of Bresdin's compositions resonated with the Symbolist imagination. L'armée romaine depicts on a tiny scale thousands of soldiers and standards disappearing into infinity.
A very good impression printed on chine appliqué, with margins all round. A made-up area at the top margin edge, a small dent in the upper margin, a few very pale fox-marks in the margins, otherwise in good condition.
- Date
- 1856
- Medium
- Etching
- Edition
- Printed by Delâtre for La Revue fantaisiste, 1861.
- Signature
- Signed In Plate
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Van Gelder 87, second state of four; Préaud 112, fourth state of six
- Image
- 8 x 14.2 cm
- Sheet
- 16 x 22.5 cm
- Status
- Available
- Price
- $1,500.00