The Moored Boatman: Souvenir of an Italian Lake
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 60.96 × 90.17 cm (24 × 35 1/2 in.) framed: 83.82 × 114.3 × 11.43 cm (33 × 45 × 4 1/2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)
Accession Number
2015.19.25
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...