Corot's Studio: Woman Seated Before an Easel, a Mandolin in her Hand
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
c. 1868
Medium
oil on wood
Dimensions
overall: 61.8 x 40 cm (24 5/16 x 15 3/4 in.) framed: 78.4 x 56.5 cm (30 7/8 x 22 1/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Widener Collection
Accession Number
1942.9.11
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...