1858
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Souvenir of Bas-Breau (Souvenir du Bas-Breau) is a 1858 by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This image looks like a sketchy, tangled mess of lines and shapes. The whole thing is mostly brown and beige, with no clear colors or smooth edges. You can sort of make out what looks like trees and maybe a path, but it’s all blurred together with lots of scratches and marks. The artist used a weird technique called *cliché-verre*, which means they etched the image onto glass and printed it. This explains why it looks like a half-finished drawing—it’s not paint, but light and shadow through scratched glass. If you like this style, check out Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (UK: KORR-oh, US: kə-ROH, kor-OH; French: ; 16 July 1796 – 22 February 1875), or simply Camille Corot, was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching.
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