Souvenir of Fampoux (Souvenir de Fampoux)
Medium
cliché-verre
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Print Purchase Fund (Rosenwald Collection)
Accession Number
1967.18.5
Art Historical Context
Step into the serene world of Jean-Baptiste-Cam Corot's *Souvenir of Famp (Souvenir de Foux)*, created in 1854. This evocative print captures the artist's fondness for the French countryside, likely evoking a peaceful village scene near Arras, where Fampoux is located. Corot, master of the Barbizon school and a bridge to Impressionism, infused his landscapes with poetic light and subtle atmosphere, blending realism with romantic introspection. What makes this work truly special is its medium: cliché-verre, a rare 19th-century hybrid technique. Corot drew directly on a glass plate with ink or ...
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...