Deer (c. 1862): Art, History and Details

Deer (c. 1862) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Charles François Daubigny (French, 1817–1878).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Around 1853 a few artists and photography buffs who were searching for a photographic method of producing multiple prints developed the cliché-verre. A glass plate is coated with an opaque ground through which the design is drawn with a sharp instrument. The plate is then placed on top of a sheet of light-sensitive paper and exposed to light so that the image is reproduced on the paper.

Object facts

• Title: Deer
• Date: c. 1862
• Creator attribution: Charles François Daubigny (French, 1817–1878)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: cliché-verre
• Dimensions: Sheet: 17.9 x 23.9 cm (7 1/16 x 9 7/16 in.); Platemark: 16.5 x 19.8 cm (6 1/2 x 7 13/16 in.)
• Collection: PR - Cliché verre
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1992.340

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1992.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 2 (February 1993): 38–79.

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