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Group of Trees

1858

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

(French, 1796–1875)
Culture
France, 19th century
Medium
cliché-verre
Support
Cream (3) wove paper
Measurements
Sheet: 15.5 x 22.9 cm (6 1/8 x 9 in.)
Credit Line
Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of the Broh-Kahns 1991.85
Catalogue raisonné
Delteil 71
State
I/II
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
Print
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot introduced the cliché-verre technique to other artists working in an artists' colony at the forest of Fontainebleau, outside Paris.

Description

The purest expression of the pastoral in French landscape in the mid-19th century may be found in the work of Corot. In the cliché-verre prints that he created between 1854 and 1874, Corot took advantage of the spontaneity of this simple process. Drawing directly on a glass plate coated with collodion, and then printing it like a photographic negative, Corot developed a loose, free style of draftsmanship that was unparalleled in his painting. Prints such as these were made purely for his own pleasure and were not intended for sale. Graceful, fluid lines flow from tree to tree and from tree to land, blending into each other without interruption, suggesting a harmony uniting all of nature.
A horizontally oriented cliché-verre print in brown ink with dense, scribbled lines depicts a large cluster of trees dominating the center and right. To the left, a figure stands near two rectangular blocks, while another sits at the trees' base. Crisscrossing lines create a textured foreground, and swirling strokes form clouds in the pale sky. The name COROT is inscribed in the lower right corner.

Group of Trees

1858

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

(French, 1796–1875)
France, 19th century

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