The Banks of the Seine at Conflans
Camille Corot
ca. 1865–70
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
18 1/4 x 21 7/8 in. (46.4 x 55.6 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Eloise Lawrence Breese Norrie, 1921
Accession Number
21.70.4
Tags
MenRiversForests
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...