The Woods of the Hermit (Le Bois de l'ermite)
Medium
Cliché-verre; first state of two
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 6 7/16 × 9 1/8 in. (16.3 × 23.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1989
Accession Number
1989.1024
Tags
About the Artist
Camille Corot|Charles-Paul Desavary · 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...