Ancient Oak in the Bois de Boulougne
1855
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
About the artist
1855
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Ancient Oak in the Bois de Boulougne is a 1855 ink by Eugène Bléry, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This etching shows a giant oak tree in the Bois de Boulogne park near Paris. Its thick trunk and tangled roots fill the page. The leaves are soft and blurry, like they’re moving in the breeze. Bléry loved trees. He often drew them the same way people portrait faces. He used fine lines to show bark texture and darker ink for shadows under the branches. Try looking up Bléry’s other etchings of trees next.
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