Bridge on the Saône River at Mâcon
Medium
oil on paper on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 25 x 33.6 cm (9 13/16 x 13 1/4 in.) framed: 48.6 x 56.5 x 6.4 cm (19 1/8 x 22 1/4 x 2 1/2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
Accession Number
1970.17.22
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...