Henri-Joseph-Constant Dutilleux
1857
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Two Boatmen in a Marsh near a Cluster of Trees is a 1857 by Henri-Joseph-Constant Dutilleux, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
The painting shows two boatmen in a marsh near trees. It's a quiet scene with a lot of detail. The artist used a unique method to create it, which is interesting because it's different from other similar works. The method involved painting on glass, which gave the image a lot of tone. This made the painting look more like a photograph. To learn more about this style, look up the technique of chiaroscuro.
Unlike most cliché-verres, which are similar to line drawings, Dutilleux's thirteen works in this medium are extremely tonal. The artist described them as "monochrome paintings on glass for photography." Instead of scratching the design into the opaque ground covering the glass plate, as Corot or Daubigny had done, Dutilleux created the image by painting the plate with it.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Constant Dutilleux (5 October 1807 - 21 October 1865) was a 19th-century French painter, illustrator and engraver.
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