Sunday, September 4, 2016

Late Landscapes of Corot, 1860s &1870s

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Boatman among reeds
ca. 1865
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875) had a long productive career and spent most of it exploring effects of light on landscape. A century earlier Claude Lorrain had pursued a similar project in the environs of Rome. Young Corot took his turn studying and painting in Italy, but established his mature working life in France. These silvery late landscapes, painted when Corot was in his sixties and seventies, became so popular with collectors, we are told, that the artist's earlier work was neglected.

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
The Ferryman
ca. 1865
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
The Leaning Tree Trunk
ca. 1860-65
National Gallery, London

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Environs of Paris
1860s
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
The Wood Gatherer
ca. 1865-70
National Gallery, London

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Woman Gathering Faggots
ca. 1871-74
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Ville d'Avray
1870
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Lane through trees
1870-73
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Wagon in the Plains of Artois
1871
National Gallery, London

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Marsh at Arleux
1871
National Gallery, London

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
The Oak in the Valley
1871
National Gallery, London

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Evening on the Lake
1872
National Gallery, London

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Souvenir of Coubron
1873
National Gallery, London

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
A Flood
ca. 1870-75
National Gallery, London

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
The Wagon
1874
National Gallery, London