Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

French, 1796 - 1875

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French landscape and portrait painter and printmaker in etching (1796-1875)

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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Horseman Halted in the Countryside (Cavalier arrete dans la campagna), 1874, cliché-verre, Print Purchase Fund (Rosenwald Collection), 1967.18.39

Horseman Halted in the Countryside (Cavalier arrete dans la campagna)

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot · 1874 · cliché-verre ·  Accession ID  1967.18.39

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Boatman (Le Batelier), 1874, cliché-verre, Print Purchase Fund (Rosenwald Collection), 1967.18.40

Boatman (Le Batelier)

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot · 1874 · cliché-verre ·  Accession ID  1967.18.40

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, The Isolated Fort (Le Fort detache), 1874, lithograph, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.2823

The Isolated Fort (Le Fort detache)

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot · 1874 · lithograph ·  Accession ID  1943.3.2823

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Saint Sebastian Succored by the Holy Women, 1874, oil on canvas, Timken Collection, 1960.6.4

Saint Sebastian Succored by the Holy Women

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot · 1874 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1960.6.4

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Souvenir of Antibes (Souvenir d'Antibes), 1874, cliché-verre, Print Purchase Fund (Rosenwald Collection), 1967.18.38

Souvenir of Antibes (Souvenir d'Antibes)

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot · 1874 · cliché-verre ·  Accession ID  1967.18.38

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Shepherd Struggling with a Goat (Berger luttant avec sa chevre), 1874, cliché-verre, Print Purchase Fund (Rosenwald Collection), 1967.18.36

Shepherd Struggling with a Goat (Berger luttant avec sa chevre)

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot · 1874 · cliché-verre ·  Accession ID  1967.18.36

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Reading Beneath the Trees (La Lecture sous les arbres), 1874, lithograph on yellow paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1946.21.233

Reading Beneath the Trees (La Lecture sous les arbres)

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot · 1874 · lithograph on yellow paper ·  Accession ID  1946.21.233

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Dreamer under Tall Trees (Le Reveur sous les grands arbres), 1874, cliché-verre, Print Purchase Fund (Rosenwald Collection), 1967.18.37

Dreamer under Tall Trees (Le Reveur sous les grands arbres)

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot · 1874 · cliché-verre ·  Accession ID  1967.18.37

Moss-green land rising to a tree-topped bluff follows the curve of a sandy beach surrounding a pale blue cove in this horizontal landscape painting. The hill and olive-green trees take up most of the height of the left side of the composition. The beach curves from the lower right corner back and to our left, and curves around the cliff face of the bluff. Closest to us, the land is flecked with saffron gold, and two dark brown patches smear the sand. The beach or a sandbar creates a strip of pale brown across the horizon, which comes halfway up the canvas. Distant hills to our left are suggested by a battleship-gray slope. The slate-blue sky above is layered with swirls and bands of oyster-white and pewter-gray clouds. The artist signed the lower left, “COROT.”
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Beach near Etretat, c. 1872, oil on canvas, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection, 1970.17.117

Beach near Etretat

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot · c. 1872 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1970.17.117

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, The Forest of Coubron, 1872, oil on canvas, Widener Collection, 1942.9.12

The Forest of Coubron

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot · 1872 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1942.9.12

Bibliography

1856

  • Silvestre, Théophile. Histoire des artistes vivants, français et étrangers. Paris, 1856.

1875

  • Dumesnil, H. Corot, souvenirs intimes. Paris, 1875.

1905

  • Robaut, Alfred, and Etienne Moreau-Nélaton. L'Oeuvre de Corot. Catalogue raisonné et illustré. 5 vols. Paris, 1905.

1910

  • Delteil, Loys. Le Peintre-graveur illustré (XIXe et XXe siècles): Corot. Paris, 1910.

1924

  • Moreau-Nélaton, Etienne. Corot raconté par lui-même. 2 vols. Paris, 1924.

1930

  • Bernheim de Villers, G. Corot, peintre de figures. Paris, 1930.

  • Jamot, Paul. Corot. Paris, 1930.

1942

  • Bazin, Germain. Corot. Paris, 1942.

1946

  • Courthion, Pierre. Corot, raconté par lui-même et par ses amis. Geneva, 1946.

1948

  • Schoeller, André, and J. Dieterle. Corot, Premier supplément à "L'Oeuvre de Corot" par A. Robaut et E. Moreau-Nélaton. Paris, 1948.

1956

  • Schoeller, André, and J. Dieterle. Corot, Deuxième supplément à "L'Oeuvre de Corot" par A. Robaut et E. Moreau-Nélaton. Paris, 1956.

1957

  • Baud-Bovy, Daniel. Corot. Geneva, 1957.

1966

  • Leymarie, Jean. Corot. Geneva, 1966 (English edition, New York, 1979).

1975

  • Toussaint, Hélène. Hommage à Corot. Exh. cat. Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 1975.

1979

  • Leymarie, Jean. Corot. Geneva, 1966 (English edition, New York, 1979).

1985

  • Hours, Madeleine. Corot. Paris, 1985.

1986

  • Zimmerman, Antje. Studien zum Figurenbild bei Corot. Ph.D. dissertation. Cologne, 1986.

1988

  • Selz, Jean. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Camille Corot. Paris, 1988.

1989

  • Wissman, Fronia E. Corot's Salon Paintings: Sources from French Classicism to Contemporary Theater Design. Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1989.

1991

  • Galassi, Peter. Corot in Italy. New Haven and London, 1991.

1996

  • Pantazzi, Michael, Vincent Pomarède, and Gary Tinterow. Corot, 1796-1875. Exh. cat. Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. New York, 1996.

2000

  • Eitner, Lorenz. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I: Before Impressionism. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 20-23.