Camille CorotFrench, 1796–1875La Danse italienne
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Where is “La Danse italienne” now? Collection: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims, Reims. Unknown.
Reims, France
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the painting
Museum text in French
Huile sur toile ; Au centre d'une clairière, un homme, tenant un tambourin, et une femme dansent accompagnés par une joueuse de guitare.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims
Details
- Accession number
- 887.3.1 ; n° 41 (Ancien registre B)
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims
- Image: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims — © Christian DEVLEESCHAUWER; Ministère de la Culture (France), base Joconde
In the life of Camille Corot
The whole life1862–1863
Painting outdoors at Bussac-sur-Charente with Courbet
In 1862 and 1863 Corot and his friend Gustave Courbet went to paint outdoors at Bussac-sur-Charente, working with Hippolyte Pradelle and Louis-Augustin Auguin and forming the short-lived “Port-Berteau group”.
1865–1875
“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
