Herinnering aan het Lago Maggiore
Camille Corot
1871
Medium
cliché-verre
Dimensions
225; 172
About this artwork
Druk van Le Garrec, 1911. In de collectie van de Bibliothèque National wordt de originele glasplaat nog bewaard, zie Bouret 1996, p. 45, nr. 87.
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...