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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 13, 2023 | Stockholms Auktionsverk | Stockholm | Modern & Contemporary | 756 | $****** - ****** | La fonte fraîche. |
paintings
14 x 10.2 cm (5.51 x 4.02 in)
Cliché verre, support on wove paper
Stuttgarter Art Cabinet, Roman Norman Ketterer, Auction 18, lot 973, 1953.
Gallery Nordqvist, Malmö. Acquired from the above sale (75 kr), thence by descent.
Delteil 37.
Melot 37.
JEAN-BAPTISTE CAMILLE COROT. La fonte fraîche.
Cliché verre, 1853, support on wove paper.
IN. 14 x 10.2 cm S. 26.6 x 20.1 cm.
Cliché verre, also called Glass Print, is a print made by placing photographic paper beneath a glass plate on which a design has been scratched through a coating of an opaque substance, and then exposing it to light. The fluid lines possible with cliché-verre prints are reminiscent of etched lines.
The technique was popularized in the 1850s among such French artists as Camille Corot, Jean-François Millet, Théodore Rousseau, and Eugène Delacroix.
Corot was trained in the Neoclassical tradition of landscape painting, which held that the most artistically significant landscapes were those populated by historical, mythological, or Biblical figures. Throughout his career, Corot favored these mythical scenes and pastoral idylls, even as his contemporaries turned increasingly to the depiction of modern life. He developed a style that infused his conservative subject matter with the improvisational quality of his outdoor sketches, creating landscapes at once transitory and timeless.
Corot"s exposure to cliché came at a pivotal moment in his career, when he was turning away from the stylistic constraints of Neoclassical painting. His clichés, in which he fluidly interpreted the themes and compositions of his paintings, are experiments in gestural freedom. Corot became a lifelong adherent to the technique, producing sixty-six plates over two decades.
According to accounts of Corot"s working process in cliché-verre, the artist probably adapted existing drawings rather than working his plates in the air. However, Corot"s clichés-verre preserve the spontaneity of his open-air sketches.
