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of Fontainebleau alongside Barbizon artists, Dutilleux
produced numerous paintings, drawings, and at least
thirteen clichés-verre representing landscape and rural
scenes, made in 1853 and again in 1857. Like Corot,
who executed his fi rst clichés-verre in collaboration with
Dutilleux, the latter’s work in this technique epitomizes
the close relationship between painting and photogra-
phy that characterized the Barbizon school. Unlike the
linear, graphic qualities of Corot’s early clichés-verre,
however, many of Dutilleux’s clichés verres were made
by the painted plate method and exhibit softer lines and
a broad tonal range. In 1860, Dutilleux moved to 58
rue st Georges, Paris, leaving his lithography studio to
former pupil Charles Desavary. He died in Paris 1865.
The Musée des Beaux-Arts, Arras, holds a signifi cant
collection of Dutilleux’s clichés verre.
Sarah Kennel