The Little sister
Print
1854 (printed)
1854 (printed)
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A cliché verre is, strictly speaking, a photographic print. To produce a cliché verre, a design is scratched on a piece of smoked glass so that light can pass through where the soot has been removed. A piece of photographic paper is placed underneath the glass and together they are exposed to light. The blackened area of the glass thus acts as a stencil, protecting the sheet below from the light, resulting in the appearance of black lines on the paper corresponding to the lines that were scratched through the soot. Corot first used this technique in the 1850s.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | The Little sister (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Cliché verre on paper |
| Brief description | Cliché verre etching. Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. The Little Sister, 1854. |
| Physical description | Cliché verre on paper |
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| Gallery label | Cameraless Photography
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875)
The Little Sister
1864
Cliché verre on albumen paper
17.2 x 21.3 cm
Museum no.E.2923-1921
A cliché verre, is a photograph made from a hand-drawn negative. The design is scratched onto a piece of smoked glass, which is placed on a sheet of sensitised paper and exposed to light. The blackened area of the glass acts as a stencil, protecting the sheet below from the light and thus creating black lines on the paper. Corot was a painter, but he also made many works using the cliché verre technique. |
| Subject depicted | |
| Summary | A cliché verre is, strictly speaking, a photographic print. To produce a cliché verre, a design is scratched on a piece of smoked glass so that light can pass through where the soot has been removed. A piece of photographic paper is placed underneath the glass and together they are exposed to light. The blackened area of the glass thus acts as a stencil, protecting the sheet below from the light, resulting in the appearance of black lines on the paper corresponding to the lines that were scratched through the soot. Corot first used this technique in the 1850s. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.2923-1921 |
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| Record created | November 20, 2002 |
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