Le Lac
Medium
Etching; first state of two
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 in. × 11 7/16 in. (20.3 × 29 cm) Plate: 6 1/8 × 7 7/8 in. (15.6 × 20 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of David Keppel, 1922
Accession Number
22.1.25
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Le Lac (The Lake), 1861** Nestled in the serene tradition of 19th-century French landscape, *Le Lac* captures a tranquil pastoral scene featuring a glassy lake flanked by trees and grazing cows. Created collaboratively by painter Camille Corot, a master of the Barbizon school for his poetic realism and luminous atmospheres, and etcher Félix Bracquem, a leading figure in French printmaking, this work reflects the era's fascination with nature's quiet beauty. Corot's soft, atmospheric drawing—likely the basis for Bracquemond's etching—evokes the harmonious rural idylls that influenced later I...
About the Artist
Félix Bracquemond|Camille Corot · 1833–1914
French, Paris 1833–1914 Sèvres