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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Les Jardins d'Horace (The Gardens of Horace)

Maker

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875), printmaker
Maurice le Garrec (French, d. 1937), publisher

Title

Les Jardins d'Horace (The Gardens of Horace)
from the portfolio "Forty Clichés-Verres" (Quarante Clichés-Glaces)

Year

ca. 1855 (printed in 1921)

Medium

  • Cliché-verre on paper

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Cliché-verre on paper

Materials

clichés-verre

Supports

  • Light weight cream wove paper

Dimensions

Sheet: 35.6 x 27.3 cm (14 x 10 3/4 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

LL: COROT.

Identification

State

ii/ii

Edition

23/150

Standard Reference Number

Delteil 1906, no. 58.ii

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Museum purchase: anonymous gift

Object Number

47.719.14

Type

  • Prints

Exhibition History

Altered States
Etching in Late 19th-Century Paris
Jun 30, 2017 – Dec 03, 2017

Label copy

This landscape was made by drawing onto glass plates placed over photosensitive paper. When the plate is complete, it was exposed to sunlight, allowing marks on the glass to slowly print onto the sheet.

Daubigny and Corot both often worked outdoors, sketching directly from nature. While Corot drew with an etching needle, using sketchy lines that translated directly to his print, Daubigny held his plate over a candle, creating a layer of soot that he could etch into or wipe. This technique allowed him to work from dark to light in loose, painterly marks.

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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875), printmaker
Maurice le Garrec (French, d. 1937), publisher
Les Jardins d'Horace (The Gardens of Horace); from the portfolio "Forty Clichés-Verres" (Quarante Clichés-Glaces), ca. 1855 (printed in 1921)
Cliché-verre on paper
Sheet: 35.6 x 27.3 cm (14 x 10 3/4 inches)
Museum purchase: anonymous gift 47.719.14

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