The Philosophers' Retreat (Le Repos des philosophes)
1871
Medium
Transfer lithograph; second state of three
Dimensions
sheet: 8 9/16 x 5 11/16 in. (21.7 x 14.5 cm) mount: 18 5/8 x 13 3/8 in. (47.3 x 34 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932
Accession Number
32.34.7
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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...