View of Lormes
Camille Corot
early 1840s
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
6 1/2 x 21 5/8 in. (16.5 x 54.9 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mendelsohn, 1980
Accession Number
1980.203.4
Tags
VillagesLandscapes
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...