Painting #065 - JBC Corot

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot 

(1796–1875, French)

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast output simultaneously references the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipates the plein-air (户外寫生) innovations of Impressionism.

* The invention of metal paint tubes not only preserves the paints but also enables their portability for plein-air of landscapes

A View near Volterra
- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
- oil on canvas (70 x 96 cm) 1838
- National Gallery of Art (Washington) 

Not a plenir-air, but a recollection of impressions.

La Danse des nymphes
- Camille Corot
- oil on canvas (48 x 77 cm) 1860
- Musée d’Orsay (Paris)

Souvenir de Mortefontaine  [Memory of dead fountain!] 

- Camille Corot

- oil on canvas (64 × 89 cm) 1864

- Louvre (Paris)

It is a scene of tranquillity: a woman and children quietly enjoying themselves by a glass-flat, tree-flanked lake.

Ville d’Avray
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
- oil on canvas (49 × 65 cm) 1865
- National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.) 

Woman with a Pearl

- Corot

- oil on canvas (70 x 55 cm) 1868-70

- Louvre (Paris)

Aka Corot's Mona Lisa 

 

 

Source: Wikipedia