Three Nymphs and a Youth: study for a decorative lunette
ca. 1850
Medium
Black chalk and graphite on laid paper (trimmed in the shape of an arch)
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 7/16 x 12 3/8 in. (21.4 x 31.5cm) (lunette shape)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund,1962
Accession Number
62.17
Tags
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...