Who created "Portrait of a Child"?

Portrait of a Child was created by Camille Corot in ca. 1835.

When was "Portrait of a Child" created?

This artwork was created ca. 1835.

What medium is "Portrait of a Child"?

Portrait of a Child is Oil on wood.

Is "Portrait of a Child" in the public domain?

Yes, Portrait of a Child is in the public domain and available for free download under CC0 license.

Portrait of a Child

Camille Corot

ca. 1835

Medium

Oil on wood

Dimensions

12 5/8 x 9 1/4 in. (32.1 x 23.5 cm)

Classification

Paintings

Department

European Paintings

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929

Accession Number

29.100.564

Tags

BoysPortraits

About this artwork

This intimate portrait represents an unusual foray into portraiture by Camille Corot, an artist primarily celebrated for his revolutionary landscape paintings. Created around 1835, during Corot's early maturity, this small oil on wood measures just 32.1 by 23.5 centimeters, suggesting a personal rather than commissioned work. The painting's identification history reveals the challenges of documenting nineteenth-century portraits; it was initially thought to depict the painter Rosa Bonheur (1822-...

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...

Portrait of a Child

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