New Clark exhibit 'A Change In the Light' displays cliché-verre prints from historic portfolio
WILLIAMSTOWN â Of the Barbizon school of painters who experimented with cliché-verre printmaking in the mid-19th century, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot was one the most prolific, creating 65 prints over two decades. His introduction to the novel technique came at a pivotal time in his career, when the French artist, known for landscapes richly populated with mythological and Biblical figures, was transitioning away from the stylistic constraints of Neoclassicism. The technique, a variation devised in the 1850s by amateur photographer Adalbert Cuvelier and drawing instructor Jean-Gabriel...
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