Two Boatmen in a Marsh near a Cluster of Trees
Medium
cliché-verre
Dimensions
image: 11.7 × 16.6 cm · secondary support: 22.6 × 28 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
John L. Severance Fund
Accession Number
1997.179
Tags
male
About this artwork
Unlike most cliché-verres, which are similar to line drawings, Dutilleux's thirteen works in this medium are extremely tonal. The artist described them as "monochrome paintings on glass for photography." Instead of scratching the design into the opaque ground covering the glass plate, as Corot or Daubigny had done, Dutilleux created the image by painting the plate with it.