A Family at Terracina
Medium
Transfer lithograph printed in brown on cream China paper laid down on white wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 26.3 × 40.7 cm (10 3/8 × 16 1/16 in.); Sheet: 40.3 × 56.8 cm (15 7/8 × 22 3/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
39380
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Corot's twelve lithographs published as Douze Croquis were made by the process of transfer lithography, whereby the artist makes his drawing on paper rather than directly on the lithographic stone. The image on paper is then transferred to the stone's surface. The Douze Croquis embodied the aesthetic of the lithography revival of the 1870s, when lithography was seen as a means to multiply drawings rather than as a medium to be exploited for its own unique resources. This portfolio was one of the...