1862
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Stags is a 1862 by Charles François Daubigny, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see deer in a landscape, set against a backdrop of trees and a cloudy sky. The painting is interesting because it shows the artist's ability to depict animals in a natural setting. The way the deer are placed in the scene, with some grazing and others looking around, creates a sense of calm. To learn more about similar artwork, look up the technique of chiaroscuro.
Around 1853 a few artists and photography buffs who were searching for a photographic method of producing multiple prints developed the cliché-verre. A glass plate is coated with an opaque ground through which the design is drawn with a sharp instrument. The plate is then placed on top of a sheet of light-sensitive paper and exposed to light so that the image is reproduced on the paper.
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Charles-François Daubigny ( DOH-bin-yee, US: DOH-been-YEE, doh-BEEN-yee, French: ; 15 February 1817 – 19 February 1878) was a French painter, one of the members of the Barbizon school, and is considered an important precursor of impressionism.
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