Landscape (The Large Tree)
c. 1865–70
- Medium
- charcoal with stumping, erasing, and wet brushwork on light brown wove paper
- Dimensions
- 24.2 × 41.8 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-209780
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot used sticks of charcoal, a powdery black medium, to dramatic effect in this late-career landscape, layering them and turning them on their side to form tonal areas and fine lines. Describing the period when the drawing was made, a colleague wrote that “one never saw [Corot] without . . . charcoal in his hand.” Such artworks conveyed the poetry the artist saw in nature and advanced his lifelong ambition of elevating landscape from the lowly status it held at the conservative French Academy. Here, he aimed to capture an evocative mood rather than a specific place, de…
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin, 2008.386
Registry history
- c. 1865–70 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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