Italiaans landschap met bomen en kerk
Camille Corot
1865 - 1866
Medium
etching
Dimensions
238; 318
About this artwork
Deze prent is Corot's eerste bijdrage aan de Société des Aquafortistes waar zijn prent op 1 april 1883 werd gepubliceerd (nummer 38).
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...