Details

Title

Ravine in the Morvan, Near Lormes

Artist/Maker

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875)

Date

ca. 1840–1845

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

18 x 18 3/4 inches

Credit

Gift of the Forward Arts Foundation

Accession #

72.39

On View

On View - Stent Family Wing, Level 2, Gallery 207

After a false start as an apprentice cloth merchant, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot resolved to become a painter at age twenty-six. This work is one in a series he made in Lormes, a village in central France situated within the Morvan Regional Natural Park. Sunlight—striking the bark of a tree, highlighting a tuft of grass, or flooding the rocky stream bank—is an important element in this private slice of nature. The intimate mood fits Corot’s contemporary reputation as a gentle, introspective painter of the French countryside.

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