Filosofen of mannen bij een groep bomen
Camille Corot
1871
Medium
lithography
Dimensions
144; 216
About this artwork
verzamelaarsmerk, verso midden onder, gestempeld: Lugt 2760
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...