Lake Albano and Castel Gandolfo
Camille Corot
1826–27
Medium
Oil on paper, laid down on wood
Dimensions
9 x 15 1/2 in. (22.9 x 39.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Dikran G. Kelekian Gift, 1922
Accession Number
22.27.2
Tags
LandscapesLakes
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...