River with a Distant Tower
Camille Corot
1865
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
21 1/2 x 30 7/8 in. (54.6 x 78.4 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Robert Graham Dun, 1900
Accession Number
11.45.4
Tags
Human FiguresRiversBoats
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...