The Meeting in the Grove (La Rencontre au bosquet)
1871
Medium
Lithograph; second state of two
Dimensions
Image: 10 11/16 × 8 5/8 in. (27.1 × 21.9 cm) Sheet: 18 3/4 × 13 9/16 in. (47.6 × 34.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932
Accession Number
32.34.3
Tags
Art Historical Context
Camille Corot’s *The Meeting in the Grove* captures a quiet encounter between figures sheltered beneath a canopy of trees. Created in 1871 as a lithograph in its second state, the print reflects Corot’s lifelong fascination with landscape as a setting for human presence. The soft tonal gradations characteristic of lithography allowed the artist to evoke the dappled light and atmospheric depth he achieved in his paintings, translating his poetic vision into a medium that could reach a broader audience. A leading figure of the Barbizon school, Corot often blended observed nature with a sense of...
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...