Italian Landscape (Paysage d'Italie)

c. 1865

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Associated Names
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Artist, French, 1796 - 1875

The image shows a landscape with textured brushstrokes. The horizon is low in the composition with a small figure or structure in the distance against the sky. The sky has swirling, circular clouds while the foreground has dark, dense lines suggesting grass or trees. The monochromatic palette is dominated by warm sepia tones.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Accession Number

    1974.57.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Delteil, no. 7, State i/iii

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1906

  • Delteil, Loys. Le peintre-graveur illustre. 31 vols. Paris: Published by the author, 1906-1926. Reprint. New York: Collectors Editions, Da Capo Press, 1969. Vol. 30 (Albert Besnard) is by Louis Godefroy.

1996

  • Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, 532; fig. 9.15, 533.

Wikidata ID

Q65572216

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