Group of Trees
Medium
cliché-verre
Dimensions
15.5 × 22.9 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of the Broh-Kahns
Accession Number
1991.85
Tags
male
About this artwork
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 ple...