Henri Joseph Constant Dutilleux
French, 1807-1865
Figures by a Pond
INV-7630
Henri Joseph Constant Dutilleux
French, 1807-18651855/60
Figures by a Pond
Henri Joseph Constant Dutilleux French, 1807-1865 →charcoaldrawings (visual works)
Date
1855/60
Medium
Charcoal, with stumping, scraping, and erasing, on buff wove paper, laid down on tan cardboard
Dimensions
23.2 × 28.6 cm (9 3/16 × 11 5/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Purchased with funds provided by Julius Lewis; Julius Lewis Endowment
Dutilleux was an intimate friend of Jean Baptiste Camille Corot and Eugene Delacroix. He had exhibited various works at the Paris Salons since 1834, but only in 1851, during a stay in the Forest of Fountainbleau, did he discover his vocation as a landscape painter. The style and technique of his own mature landscapes so strongly reflect the influence of Corot that some of Dutilleux's works have been mistakenly attributed to Corot himself.