The Rider in the Reeds (Le Cavalier dans les roseaux)
Camille Corot
1871
Medium
Lithograph; second state of two
Dimensions
Image: 8 9/16 × 10 13/16 in. (21.7 × 27.5 cm) Sheet: 13 3/8 × 18 3/4 in. (34 × 47.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932
Accession Number
32.34.4
Tags
LandscapesHorses
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...