River View
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
1868/1872
Medium
oil on wood
Dimensions
overall: 32.2 x 40.6 x 1 cm (12 11/16 x 16 x 3/8 in.) framed: 61 x 69.9 x 7.6 cm (24 x 27 1/2 x 3 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of R. Horace Gallatin
Accession Number
1949.1.2
About the Artist
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, born on July 16, 1796, in Paris to a prosperous bourgeois family—his father a former wig-maker turned draper and his mother a successful milliner—was initially apprenticed in the textile trade but pursued art from his mid-twenties with family support. He studied under the neoclassical landscapist Achille Etna Michallon in 1821–1822, who taught him to sketch outdoors in...