Environs of Rome
Camille Corot
1866
Medium
Etching; third state of three
Dimensions
Plate: 12 1/2 × 9 7/16 in. (31.8 × 24 cm) Sheet: 15 9/16 × 12 3/16 in. (39.6 × 31 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947
Accession Number
47.100.685
Tags
LandscapesTrees
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...