<em>Vase</em>. Faience, 3 9/16 x 3 5/8 x 4 3/16 in. (9 x 9.2 x 10.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 33.580. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , CUR.33.580_view2.jpg)

Vase. Faience, 3 9/16 x 3 5/8 x 4 3/16 in. (9 x 9.2 x 10.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 33.580. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , CUR.33.580_view2.jpg)

<em>Vase</em>. Faience, 3 9/16 x 3 5/8 x 4 3/16 in. (9 x 9.2 x 10.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 33.580. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.33.580_view1.jpg)

Vase. Faience, 3 9/16 x 3 5/8 x 4 3/16 in. (9 x 9.2 x 10.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 33.580. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.33.580_view1.jpg)

Vase. Faience, 3 9/16 x 3 5/8 x 4 3/16 in. (9 x 9.2 x 10.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 33.580. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.33.580_view4.jpg)

Vase. Faience, 3 9/16 x 3 5/8 x 4 3/16 in. (9 x 9.2 x 10.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 33.580. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.33.580_view3.jpg)

Vase. Faience, 3 9/16 x 3 5/8 x 4 3/16 in. (9 x 9.2 x 10.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 33.580. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , CUR.33.580_view2.jpg)

Vase. Faience, 3 9/16 x 3 5/8 x 4 3/16 in. (9 x 9.2 x 10.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 33.580. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.33.580_top.jpg)

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Vase

Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

A largely self-taught artist from a working-class background, Rodolphe Bresdin was an innovative fine art lithographer working at a time when lithography had come to be considered too populist and commercial. Works such as The Good Samaritan, which his student Odilon Redon described as “a strange creation,” gained Bresdin a reputation for creating a profusion of intricate and dense detail that was almost hallucinatory in its effect. The writer Joris-Karl Huysmans compared the artist to Albrecht Dürer, but with “a brain clouded by opium.”

This work was originally titled Abd-el-Kader Aiding a Christian, a reference to a famed emir of Algeria who, after being exiled for his fierce opposition to French colonialism, averted a massacre of Christians in Damascus, Syria, in 1860. Bresdin drew from a variety of sources in this image, copying most of the animals from the illustrations in a French edition of The Swiss Family Robinson.

MEDIUM Faience

PERIOD Late Period, Saite Period (probaby)

DIMENSIONS 3 9/16 x 3 5/8 x 4 3/16 in. (9 x 9.2 x 10.7 cm) (show scale)

COLLECTIONS Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

ACCESSION NUMBER 33.580

CREDIT LINE Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund

MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view

CAPTION Vase. Faience, 3 9/16 x 3 5/8 x 4 3/16 in. (9 x 9.2 x 10.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 33.580. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , CUR.33.580_view2.jpg)

IMAGE overall, CUR.33.580_view2.jpg.

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