Camille CorotFrancia, 1796–1875Sous bois
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Con le parole del museo — in francese
Le tableau représente un sous-bois. Une rivière s'écoule au premier plan et semble finir en petite cascade en bas à droite du tableau. En arrière plan, des arbres et une forêt s'étendent sur tout le reste de la surface du tableau. Un léger espace en haut à gauche est laissé pour faire apparaître le ciel bleu et quelques nuages.
Musée Louis-Français
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- Numero di inventario
- 504 ; Cat. Béthune (1913)
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- Musée Louis-Français
- Immagine: Musée Louis-Français — © Musée Louis Français - Plombières les Bains ?; Ministère de la Culture (France), base Joconde
Nella vita di Camille Corot
Tutta la vita1807–1812 · Formazione
Lycée Pierre-Corneille
1822
His father consents to an artist's career
At 26 Corot won his father's consent to adopt the profession of art; he later recalled telling his father that business and he were simply incompatible and that he was getting a divorce.
1825–1828
First trip to Italy
With his parents' support Corot went to Italy to study the Renaissance masters and draw the crumbling monuments of antiquity; his parents' condition was that he paint a self-portrait for them, his first. In three years he completed over 200 drawings and 150 paintings, worked and travelled with several young French painters, and spent most of his time around Rome and in the Italian countryside.
1827
Salon debut: “View at Narni”
In 1827 Corot sent his first painting to the Salon, “View at Narni”. He transformed a quick study of a ruined Roman aqueduct in bright sun into an idyllic pastoral setting with giant shade trees and green lawns, a conversion meant to appeal to the Neoclassical jurors.
1835
A sensation at the Salon: “Hagar in the Wilderness”
In 1835 Corot created a sensation at the Salon with his biblical painting “Hagar in the Wilderness”, showing Hagar and the child Ishmael dying of thirst until saved by an angel; his bold, fresh statement of the Neoclassical ideal succeeded with the critics. The biblical and mythological subjects that followed did not succeed as well, as the critics found him wanting in comparison with Poussin.
22 febbraio 1875
Died
