1850
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Deer in the Woods (Les Cerfs sous bois) is a 1850 ink by Charles François Daubigny, a Impressionism work, depicting Forest, held at National Gallery of Art.
This etching shows three deer standing in a dense forest. Trees surround them like a green wall. Shadows fall across the ground in soft stripes. Daubigny cut these lines himself into a metal plate. He used a drypoint needle to scratch fine details like fur and leaves. The scratches hold ink, printing rich blacks where the plate was scratched deepest. Try an etching by Rembrandt—he made prints just like this one at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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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