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Rodolphe Bresdin

The Good Samaritan

1861
lithograph

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

Rodolphe Bresdin was known in his time as "Chien-Caillou" after the impoverished artist who served as the protagonist in an 1845 novel with the same title.

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