Dance under the Trees at the Edge of the Lake
1865/1870
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 55.88 × 80.01 cm (22 × 31 1/2 in.) framed: 87.63 × 112.4 × 11.43 cm (34 1/2 × 44 1/4 × 4 1/2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)
Accession Number
2014.136.25
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...