Diana and Actaeon (Diana Surprised in Her Bath)
Camille Corot
1836
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
61 5/8 x 44 3/8 in. (156.5 x 112.7 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.162
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
ActaeonNymphsDianaForestsBathing
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...