Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Landscape with Nymph

Maker

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875)

Title

Landscape with Nymph

Year

ca. 1856

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

charcoal

Dimensions

33.7 x 27.7 cm (13 1/4 x 10 7/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed, in charcoal, at LR corner: Corot

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Murray S. Danforth

Object Number

41.003

Type

Publications

Exhibition History

French Drawings in the Time of Degas
Aug 19, 2005 – Jan 22, 2006

Label copy

Degas profoundly admired Corot’s figure studies and landscapes, although he primarily collected the latter. He loved Corot’s early paintings, which had a hard-edge clarity quite different from the softer, more atmospheric style of this drawing, typical of Corot’s work of the 1850s.

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Tombstone

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875)
Landscape with Nymph, ca. 1856
Charcoal on wove paper
33.7 x 27.7 cm (13 1/4 x 10 7/8 inches)
Gift of Mrs. Murray S. Danforth 41.003

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