A Woman Reading
Camille Corot
1869 and 1870
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
21 3/8 x 14 3/4 in. (54.3 x 37.5 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Louise Senff Cameron, in memory of her uncle, Charles H. Senff, 1928
Accession Number
28.90
Tags
BooksWomenReading
About the Artist
Camille Corot · 1796–1875
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, born in Paris on July 16, 1796, into a prosperous bourgeois family—his father a former wig maker turned draper, his mother a successful milliner—initially resisted his artistic calling. After a lackluster education at the Lycée Pierre-Corneille in Rouen and failed apprenticeships in business, he abandoned commerce at age 26, thanks to a generous parental allowance foll...