Fontainebleau: Oak Trees at Bas-Bréau
Camille Corot
1832 or 1833
Medium
Oil on paper, laid down on wood
Dimensions
15 5/8 x 19 1/2 in. (39.7 x 49.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1979
Accession Number
1979.404
Tags
ForestsOaks
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...