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Group of Trees

1858
(French, 1796–1875)
France, 19th century
cliché-verre
Support: Cream (3) wove paper
Sheet: 15.5 x 22.9 cm (6 1/8 x 9 in.)
Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of the Broh-Kahns 1991.85
Catalogue raisonné: Delteil 71
State: I/II
Location: not on view
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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.
Group of Trees

Group of Trees

1858

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

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

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