Saturday, September 3, 2016

Early Corot

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
The Roman Campagna with the Claudian Aqueduct
1826
National Gallery, London

Corot's earliest landscape style, shaped during periods of study in Italy, featured wide horizons and open skies. His obsession with the quality of light was with him always. In old age he preferred misty effects of silvery gauze, but in robust youth the light poured out of the pictures.

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Castel Sant'Angelo with the dome of St Peter's in the distance 
ca. 1830-32
Clark Art Institute

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Hagar in the Wilderness
1835
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
The Seine near Rouen
ca. 1829-33
National Gallery, London

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Mountainous Landscape
not dated
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
View of Lormes
1840s
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
View of Genzano
1843
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Dardagny Morning
1853
National Gallery, London

Corot painted portraits and other figure studies from time to time, in between landscapes. Immediately below is Corot's one and only equestrian portrait. The man on the horse was a country neighbor.

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Monsieur Pivot on Horseback
ca. 1853
National Gallery, London

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Woman in Bridal Dress
ca. 1855-65
National Gallery, London

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
The Curious Little Girl
1860-64
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
study for The Burning of Sodom
1843
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
The Burning of Sodom (cut down)
1843
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
River with a distant tower
1865
Metropolitan Museum of Art