A Family at Terracina
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (printed by Lemercier et Compagnie (French, 1825-1891))
1871
- Medium
- Transfer lithograph printed in brown on cream China paper laid down on white wove paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Image: 26.3 × 40.7 cm (10 3/8 × 16 1/16 in.); Sheet: 40.3 × 56.8 cm (15 7/8 × 22 3/8 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Corot's twelve lithographs published as Douze Croquis were made by the process of transfer lithography, whereby the artist makes his drawing on paper rather than directly on the lithographic stone. The image on paper is then transferred to the stone's surface. The Douze Croquis embodied the aesthetic of the lithography revival of the 1870s, when lithography was seen as a means to multiply drawings rather than as a medium to be exploited for its own unique resources. This portfolio was one of the first to be marketed in a limited edition (of 50), which gave the publication the cachet of "rarity" and also ensured uniformly high printing quality.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
