Mother and Child
Camille Corot
probably 1860s
Medium
Oil on wood
Dimensions
12 3/4 x 8 7/8 in. (32.4 x 22.5 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Mrs. P. H. B. Frelinghuysen, 1930
Accession Number
30.13
Tags
WomenNursingInfantsMothers
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...