A Group of Trees in Red Chalk
A red-chalk study of a leafy clump of trees
A soft red-chalk (sanguigna) drawing occupies the right side of the leaf, showing a dense clump of trees whose slender trunks rise into billowing masses of foliage. The e-Leo caption records only that the sheet bears, drawn upside down relative to the notebook, a group of trees in red chalk. The rest of the page is otherwise blank apart from the Institut de France stamp.
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A group of trees in red chalk
The drawing gathers several trees into a single mass: slender trunks climb through loosely scribbled crowns of leaves, with lower shrubs and undergrowth built up in short hatched strokes. It is a study of foliage and tree form rather than a finished landscape.