Cluster of Trees (Bouquet d'Arbres), from "L'Estampe Originale"
Charles-Marie Dulac French
Publisher André Marty French
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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).
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