Woman in a Hammock
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
mid-19th century
Medium
graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 15.1 × 18.7 cm (5 15/16 × 7 3/8 in.) mount: 21.6 × 24.5 cm (8 1/2 × 9 5/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Donald Stone
Accession Number
2022.40.16
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...