Landscape (The Large Tree) — About This Work
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, c. 1865–70
About the Work
A large spreading tree anchors a dark landscape. Corot uses charcoal both as a line-making tool and as a broad tonal material, giving the tree a presence that extends beyond its outer contour.
The museum describes layering, sideways strokes and erased or worked passages in the sheet. These changes of handling create a landscape through relationships of light and darkness, with the brown paper participating in the overall tone.
The work belongs to Corot's later practice and is discussed by the museum in relation to his landscapes of recollection. Its mood need not be tied to a precisely identified site: the tree and surrounding atmosphere hold the composition together.
The Work
Artist: Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
Title: Landscape (The Large Tree)
Date: c. 1865–70
Medium: Charcoal with stumping, erasing, and wet brushwork on light brown wove paper
Recorded dimensions: 41.8 × 24.2 cm (W × H)
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession number: 2008.386
Print & Presentation
Palatine presentation: 40 × 60 cm Classic Frame, landscape.
The complete artwork is reproduced at its recorded scale, subject only to negligible whole-pixel rounding, without enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion. The surrounding white presentation area accommodates the artwork within the framed presentation and is incorporated into the print rather than added as a separate mount.
Frame finishes: Black, White or Natural.
Paper & glazing: Enhanced Matte + Perspex; or Enhanced Matte + Moth-Eye.
Why Original Scale?
Most art-print shops offer the same image in a choice of Small, Medium and Large sizes. We take a different approach. For each edition, we begin with the recorded dimensions of the original work and reproduce the complete image at that scale, preserving its proportions and avoiding enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion.
Source: Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0. Bequest of Muriel Butkin. 2008.386.
Care: Display in a dry interior away from prolonged direct sunlight and sources of moisture.
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