Object number2020.20
L'Embuscade
Date1858
Artist
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
(French, 1796 - 1875)
CultureFrench
MediumCliché-verre (salt proof) printed in brown
DimensionsOverall: 8 13/16 × 6 5/16 in. (22.4 × 16 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, Art Gallery Purchase Fund
On View
Not on viewPeriod19th c
Classification(s)
SignedOn recto, signed within the image lower right: COROT
InscribedOn verso, by unidentified hand, lower center in pencil: FLLAC 2020.20; lower right: 200766 / D 64
BibliographyDelteil, Loys. Le peintre-graveur illustré. 31 vols. Paris: Published by the author, 1906-1926. Reprint. New York: Collectors Editions, Da Capo Press, 1969. Vol. 5, p. 64; Elizabeth Glassman and Marilyn F. Symmes, Cliché-Verre: Hand-Drawn, Light-Printed; A Survey of the Medium from 1839 to the Present, exh. cat. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Art, 1980.
Vassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryPoughkeepsie, New York, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, "In Translation: Prints Across Media," May 28 – September 18, 2022Label TextCorot was a member of the Barbizon school of landscape painters active in and around the Forest of Fontainebleau. He was also an accomplished printmaker, and among the first artists to experiment with cliché verre (French for “glass plate”), a process similar to etching which involves incising a design through a prepared ground on a glass plate. The clear parts of the plate (the design scratched in the surface) print as black when placed in contact with light-sensitive paper and exposed to sunlight. The process enjoyed a vogue among French artists in the mid-nineteenth century.
- John P. Murphy
DescriptionA view of trees in a dip in the landscape rendered out of expressive linework in brown
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Camille Pissarro
1890
Culture: French
