# Landscape with a Fallen Tree (Paysage à l'arbre cassé)

**Hubert Robert** (French, 1733–1808)  
1764  
etching on laid paper  
plate: 20 × 14.6 cm (7 7/8 × 5 3/4 in.) sheet: 21.6 × 17 cm (8 1/2 × 6 11/16 in.)

Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2016.43.6. [The museum's record](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.204948.html).

## About this work

Hubert Robert made this in 1764, aged 31. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

### What you’re looking at

The image shows an illustration of a rocky terrain with towering stone formations and dense foliage. The sky is textured and the scene is created using an etching technique with intricate linework. There are two figures in the scene, one appearing to climb or position near a rock, while the other observes. The color palette is monochromatic, using black on a white background to depict depth and dimension in the artwork.

_Description from the National Gallery of Art._

### How it was made

- **Etching.** The artist draws with a needle through a waxy coating on a copper plate, and acid bites the exposed lines. The plate is then inked, wiped and printed under pressure, so the line keeps the freedom of drawing.
- **Laid paper.** Handmade on a mould of close-set wires, which leave fine parallel lines you can see when the sheet is held to the light.

### [Hubert Robert](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/hubert-robert)

French, 1733–1808

## Facts

- Type: Print
- The artist was 31
- Real size: about 8 × 5½ in (20 × 15 cm). The original is small: even the 8 × 10 in print shows it larger than life.
- Century: 18th century
- Subjects: Landscape, Tree, Water, Figures
- Colour: white
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

## Get it

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- Print-ready file: 8 × 10 in $2; 11 × 14 in $2; 12 × 16 in $3; 16 × 20 in $3; 18 × 24 in $3; 20 × 30 in $5

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