A Nude Reclining in a Landscape

A Nude Reclining in a Landscape by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Medium

graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 19.4 x 28 cm (7 5/8 x 11 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of Evelyn Stefansson Nef

Accession Number

2003.36.1

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...

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