Cluster of Trees (Bouquet d'arbres)

Charles-Marie Dulac|André Marty

1894 · Lithograph · Drawings and Prints

The towering grove of trees dwarfing three miniscule figures reflects Dulac’s belief in the grandeur and spirituality of nature. Following a diagnosis of fatal lead poisoning at age twenty-five from exposure to lead paint while working as an interior and set decorator, he became a devout follower of Saint Francis of Assisi, who advocated accessing the divine through communion with nature. Dulac published two suites of devotional landscape lithographs and had started on a third before he died at age thirty-three. This work was included in one of the most important print projects of the fin-de-siècle, André Marty’s "L’Estampe Originale" (1893–95).

Artist

Charles-Marie Dulac|André Marty

Date

1894

Medium

Lithograph

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1922