Souvenir: Roman Landscape with the Colosseum
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
1865/1870
Medium
charcoal on blue paper
Dimensions
overall: 27.5 x 45.4 cm (10 13/16 x 17 7/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Jill Newhouse
Accession Number
2004.54.2
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...