A Lake in the Tyrol (Un lac du Tyrol)
Medium
etching in red-brown on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 11.5 x 17.3 cm (4 1/2 x 6 13/16 in.) sheet: 18.1 x 27.2 cm (7 1/8 x 10 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1984.70.1
About the Artist
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, born on July 16, 1796, in Paris to a prosperous bourgeois family—his father a former wig-maker turned draper and his mother a successful milliner—was initially apprenticed in the textile trade but pursued art from his mid-twenties with family support. He studied under the neoclassical landscapist Achille Etna Michallon in 1821–1822, who taught him to sketch outdoors in...