Two Boatmen in a Marsh near a Cluster of Trees

Cleveland Museum of Art

Two Boatmen in a Marsh near a Cluster of Trees

Henri-Joseph-Constant Dutilleux

Date
c. 1857
Medium
cliché-verre
Culture
France, 19th century
Department
Prints
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

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.

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