The Cows' Resting Place (Le Dormoir des vâches)
1871
Medium
Transfer lithograph printed in brown ink on chine collé; first of two states
Dimensions
mount: 18 11/16 x 13 7/16 in. (47.5 x 34.2 cm) sheet: 6 5/16 x 5 3/8 in. (16.1 x 13.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932
Accession Number
32.34.8
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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...