# The Marl Pit at Mulcent: Evening

- By: Antoine Chintreuil (French, 1814–1873)
- Date: after 1857
- Medium: oil on paper, mounted to cardboard, mounted to plywood
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Framed: 64.2 x 115.8 x 7.7 cm (25 1/4 x 45 9/16 x 3 1/16 in.); Unframed: 47.6 x 99.2 cm (18 3/4 x 39 1/16 in.)
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit line: Bequest of Noah L. Butkin
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.245)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1980.245/1980.245_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Marl is a crumbly mixture of clays, calcium, and magnesium carbonates, often used as fertilizer for lime-deficient soils.