Italian Landscape (recto); Rocks and foliage (verso)
Camille Corot
ca. 1826–27
Medium
Pen and brown ink over graphite
Dimensions
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 18 5/16 in. (35.4 × 46.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Jill Newhouse, 2016
Accession Number
2016.763a, b
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...