Camille CorotFrench, 1796–1875La Clairière
May one see it?
Unknown
Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret
Nice, France
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- RF 1795
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret
- Image: Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret — RMN PHOTO Adrien Didierjean; Ministère de la Culture (France), base Joconde
Meanwhile, in the life of Camille Corot
The whole life1865–1875
“Père Corot” of Parisian artists
In his final ten years Corot became the “Père (Father) Corot” of Parisian artistic circles, regarded with personal affection and acknowledged as one of the five or six greatest landscape painters the world had seen, along with Hobbema, Claude Lorrain, Turner and Constable.
29 June 1867 · Award
Officer of the Legion of Honour
1871
The siege of Paris: a donation; the Commune, in Arras
In 1871, during the Franco-Prussian War, Corot gave 2,000 francs for the poor of Paris, then under siege by the Prussians. During the Paris Commune he was at Arras with Alfred Robaut.
1872
A house in Auvers for the blind Daumier
In 1872 Corot bought a house in Auvers as a gift for Honoré Daumier, who by then was blind, without resources and homeless.
1872 · Award
Knight of the Order of Leopold
1874
Friends present Corot with a gold medal
Despite his great success among artists and collectors, his many friends felt that he had been officially neglected, and in 1874, a short time before his death, they presented him with a gold medal.
