Provenance

Camille-Cornélie Isbert

French, 1825 - 1911

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Dense green vegetation surrounds a band of sun-dappled boulders that arc shallowly across this horizontal landscape painting. Just to our left of center and on our side of the boulders are several slender tree trunks. The area beyond the boulders is a haze of loosely painted moss and pine green. The tree trunks and rocks are painted in tones of sable, peanut, sand, and dark brown. The artist signed the lower left, “COROT.”
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Rocks in the Forest of Fontainebleau, 1860/1865, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.110

Rocks in the Forest of Fontainebleau

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot · 1860/1865 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.110

Bibliography

1976

  • Benezit, Emmanuel. Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinaterus et graveurs de tour les temps et tous les pays. 10 vols. Paris, 1976: 9:732