Rodolphe Bresdin
Le Bon Samaritan (The Good Samaritan)

CultureFrench
Titles
  • Le Bon Samaritan (The Good Samaritan)
Date1861
MediumLithograph, printed chine collé, on yellow wove paper and gray wove paper; mounted on wove paper, third printing on two chine, edition of 175
DimensionsSheet (grey chine, irregular): 25 1/16 × 19 1/8 in. (63.7 × 48.5 cm)
Mount: 26 1/4 × 19 5/8 in. (66.7 × 49.8 cm)
Image (irregular): 22 1/4 × 17 7/16 in. (56.5 × 44.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Art + Paper 2018
Object number2018.129
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ProvenancePrivate Collection, United States; [Susan Schulman Printseller LLC, New York, by 2018]; purchased by MFAH, 2018.
Exhibition HistoryNone known for this impression.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Printed, lower left in the image: Rodolphe Bresdin 1861 [in reverse]
Recto: Printed, lower center: Imp Lemercier Paris
Verso: In graphite, upper right quadrant: [illegible]

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Catalogue raisonnéVan Gelder 100; Prèaud/Becker 29

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