The Island and Bridge of San Bartolomeo, Rome
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
1825/1828
Medium
oil on paper on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 27 x 43.2 cm (10 5/8 x 17 in.) framed: 50.8 x 66.4 x 7.6 cm (20 x 26 1/8 x 3 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
2001.23.1
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...