1853
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
The Woodcutter of Rembrandt (Le Bucheron de Rembrandt) is a 1853 by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This image shows a faint, ghostly forest scene. The trees are barely sketched in, their branches and trunks barely visible against a pale background. The whole picture looks like it’s fading away, almost like an old sketch left in the rain. This is a *cliché-verre*, a rare 19th-century photo-printing method where light passes through glass plates to create an image. It’s more like a shadow than a painting. Next, check out Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille—he used soft, dreamy landscapes like this one.
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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