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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, printmaker

Les Jardins d'Horace (The Gardens of Horace), ca. 1855 (printed in 1921)

Description

Maker

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

Title

Les Jardins d'Horace (The Gardens of Horace)

Year

ca. 1855 (printed in 1921)

Medium

Cliché-verre on paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • clichés-verre

Supports

  • Light weight cream wove paper

Signature / Inscription / Marks

LL: COROT.

Identification

State

ii/ii

Edition

23/150

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Museum purchase: anonymous gift

Object Number

47.719.14

Projects & Publications

Publications

Altered States

Etching in Late 19th-Century Paris
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Le Peintre-Graveur Illustré

the graphic works of nineteenth and twentieth century artists

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Altered States

June 30 - December 3, 2017

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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