The Rider in the Reeds (Le Cavalier dans les roseaux)
Medium
lithograph
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.2830
Art Historical Context
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Cor, a leading figure in 19th-century French landscape painting and a key member of the Barb School, created *The Rider in the Re (Le Cavalier dans roseaux)* in 1. This lithograph Corot's signature poetic sensitivity to nature, blending soft, atmospheric effects with a subtle interplay of light and shadow. Toward the end of his career, Corot turned to printmaking, producing lithographs that allowed him to explore tonal gradations and fluid lines reminiscent of his oil paintings, bridging Romanticism and the emerging Impressionist movement. Lithography, the medium here, w...
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...