Clump of Trees at Civita Castellana
Medium
pen and brown ink and graphite with white heightening on brown wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 26.5 x 35.2 cm (10 7/16 x 13 7/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1990.47.1
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...