The Mill at Cuincy, Near Douai
Medium
Transfer lithograph; second state of two
Dimensions
mount: 18 7/8 x 13 9/16 in. (48 x 34.5 cm) sheet: 13 3/8 x 18 7/8 in. (34 x 48 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932
Accession Number
32.34.10
Tags
About the Artist
Camille Corot|Lemercier & Cie. · 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...