Wednesday, 13 April 2016

Camille Corot – part 7



Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796 – 1875) was a French landscape and portrait painter, as well as printmaker. He is regarded as a pivotal figure in landscape painting; his vast output simultaneously referencing the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipating the ‘plein-air’ innovations of Impressionism.

For full biographical notes see Part 1, and for earlier works see Parts 1 to 6 also.



This is part 7 of a 16-part series on the works of Camille Corot:


1850c Three Nymphs and a Youth: study for a decorative lunette
Graphite and chalk on paper 21.4 x 31.5 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

1850c Young Boy of the Corot Family
Oil on paper mounted on canvas
Musée Municipal de Semur-en-Auxois, France

1851 La Rochelle - Quarry near the Port Entrance
Oil on canvas
Private Collection

1851 The Port of La Rochelle
Oil on canvas
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

1851 Ville d'Avray
Oil on canvas 23.9 x 33.7 cm
Southampton City Art Gallery, UK

1851-73c Saint Sebastian Succoured by Holy Women
Oil on canvas 257.8 x 158 cm
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD

1852 M. Bison
Oil on canvas 32 x 25 cm
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, UK

1852 Mme. Bison
Oil on canvas 32 x 25 cm
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, UK

1852-63c A Village Street; Dardagny
Oil on canvas 34.3 x 24.1 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

1853 Dardagny, Morning
Oil on canvas 26 x 47 cm
The National Gallery, London

1853 Morning, Fog Effect
Oil 25 x 35 cm
Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France

1853-57c Archicourt, Near Arras
Oil on canvas 17.8 x 30.2 cm
Private Collection

1853-58c A Road near Arras
Oil on canvas 35 x 46 cm

1853c Monsieur Pivot on Horseback
Oil on canvas 39.2 x 30.3 cm
The National Gallery, London

1854 Landscape in Holland
Oil on canvas 18.4 x 31.8 cm
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

1854 Little Sister
Cliché-verre on ivory photographic paper 15.1 x 18.8 cm ( image )
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1854 Mary Magdalene Reading
Oil on canvas 33 x 47 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

1854 Near Rotterdam
Oil on canvas mounted on board 23.5 x 16.1 cm
Private Collection

1854 Near Rotterdam, Small Houses on the Banks of a Canal
Oil on canvas
Private Collection

1854 The Dreamer
Cliché-verre 16.4 x 19.8 cm
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas

1854 The Path Leading to the House
Oil on canvas 23 x 37.5 cm
Private Collection

1854 The Rider in the Woods, Small Plate
Cliché-verre on ivory photographic paper 18.9 x 14.8 cm ( image )
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1854 The Young Maiden and Death
Cliché-verre on ivory photographic paper 19.1 x 13.5 cm ( image )
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1854c The Rider in the Woods, Large Plate
Cliché-verre on ivory photographic paper 28.5 x 22.6 cm ( image )
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1855 Château-Thierry
Oil on canvas 34.9 x 58.4 cm
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE

1855 Little Shepherd, 1st Plate
Cliche-verre 32.5 x 24.4 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1855 Moonlight
Oil on canvas 28 x 36 cm
De Mesdag Collectie, The Hague, Netherlands

1855 Mur
Oil on canvas
Private Collection

1855 Reclining Nymph
Oil on canvas 49 x 75 cm
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève, Switzerland

1855 Souvenir of Ostia
Cliché-verre on ivory photographic paper 27.2 x 34.4 cm ( image )
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1855 The Gardens of Horace
Cliché-verre on ivory photographic paper 36.7 x 29.5 cm ( image )
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1855 The Mother Superior of the Convent of the Annonciades
Oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre, Paris

1855-60 Auvers-sur-Oise, Daubigny's Pond
Oil on paper marouflé to canvas 17.2 x 26 cm
The Fitzwillian Museum, Cambridge, UK

1855-60 Bathing Nymphs and Child
Oil on canvas 82.6 x 100.3 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1855-60 Bologne-sur-Mer, View from the High Cliffs
Oil on canvas
Private Collection

1855-60 Castel Gandolfo, Dancing Tyrolean Shepherds by Lake Albano
Oil on canvas 49.2 x 65.5 cm
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff

1855-60 Near the Mill, Chierry, Aisne
Oil on canvas
Private Collection

1855-60 Souvenir of Italy
Oil on canvas 82.6 x 66.4 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1855-60 The Bent Tree
Oil on canvas 44.3 x 58.5 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

1855-60 The Pond and the Cabassud Houses at Ville-d'Avray
Oil on canvas
Des Moines Art Centre, Iowa

1855-60 Trees in a Swamp
Oil on canvas 25.5 x 38 cm
The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

1855-60c A Man Scything by a Willow Grove, Artois
Oil on canvas 33.4 x 53.7 cm
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

1855-60c Breton Woman With Her Little Girl
Oil on canvas
Private Collection

1855-60c Clearing in the Bois Pierre, near at Eveaux near Chateau Thiery
Oil on canvas 33 x 24 cm

1855-60c Danses virgiliennes
Oil on canvas 55 x 73 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

1855-60c Edge of a Lake
Oil on canvas 22.9 x 31.8 cm
Private Collection

1855-60c Landscape with a Boy in a White Shirt
Oil on canvas 17 x 52 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

1855c The Young Shepherd, Second Plate
Cliché-verre on ivory photographic paper 33.3 x 25.3 cm ( image )
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

Monday, 11 April 2016

Camille Corot – part 6



Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796 – 1875) was a French landscape and portrait painter, as well as printmaker. He is regarded as a pivotal figure in landscape painting; his vast output simultaneously referencing the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipating the ‘plein-air’ innovations of Impressionism.

For full biographical notes see Part 1, and for earlier works see Parts 1 to 5 also.



This is part 6 of a 16-part series on the works of Camille Corot:


1845-50 Fishing with Nets, Evening
Oil on canvas 32 x 24 cm
Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France

1845-50 Marcoussis - Cows Grazing
Oil on canvas
Private Collection

1845-50c Forest Clearing in the Limousin
Oil on canvas 35.6 x 54.6 cm
Private Collection

1845-50c In the Vicinity of Geneva
Oil
Private Collection

1845-50c The Eldest Daughter of M. Edouard Delalain
Oil on canvas
Private Collection

1845-50c The Son of M. Edouard Delalain
Oil on canvas
Private Collection

1845-50c The Younger Daughter of M. Edouard Delalain
Oil on canvas
Private Collection

1845-55 A Road in the Countryside, Near Lake Leman
Oil on canvas
Private Collection

1845-55c Young Italian Patriot in the Mountains
Oil on panel
Private Collection

1845-60c Twilight
Oil on canvas 50.2 x 37.1 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1845c A Windmill in Montmartre
Oil on paper mounted on canvas 26 x 34 cm
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève

1845c Souvenir of Tuscany
Etching on ivory laid paper 13.3 x 18.2 cm (plate)
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1845c The Lac de Nemi
Oil on canvas 22.2 x 15.9 cm
Private Collection

1846 Forest of Fontainebleau
Oil on canvas 90 x 129 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1847c The Italian Goatherd, Evening
Oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre, Paris

1848 Italian Landscape
Oil on canvas 87 x 117 cm
Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai, France

1850 The Fair Maid of Gascony
Oil on canvas 40 x 30.2 cm
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA

1850 Washerwoman
Oil on canvas 34.4 x 20 cm
Legion of Honour / Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA

1850-51 Morning - Dance of the Nymphs
Oil on canvas 98.5 x 132.1 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

1850-51 Saint Sebastian
Oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre, Paris

1850-55 An Artist Painting in the Forest of Fountainebleau
Oil on canvas 28.6 x 24.1 cm
Private Collection

1850-55 Goatherd Standing, Playing the Flute under the Trees
Oil on canvas 45.7 x 31.1 cm
Private Collection

1850-55 Harvester with Sickle
Oil on canvas
Private Collection

1850-55c A Village near Beauvais
Oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre, Paris

1850-55c By the Sea
Oil on canvas
Private Collection

1850-55c Fishing under the Willows
Oil on canvas 43.1 x 45.3 cm
Private Collection

1850-55c L'Arbre Tordu, Les Chenes du Mont Usey, Fontainebleau
Oil on paper mounted on canvas
30.5 x 41.9 cm Private Collection

1850-55c Portrait of a Woman
oil on canvas 44.5 x 26 cm
The Burrell Collection, Glasgow, UK

1850-55c The Rhone - Three Women on the Riverbank Seated on a Tree Trunk
Oil on canvas
Private Collection

1850-55c The Swamp by the Large Tree with a Goatherd
Oil on canvas
Private Collection

1850-55c Two Cowherds in a Meadow by the Water
Oil 41.3 x 47 cm
Private Collection

1850-55c Ville d'Avray - The Large Pond and the Villas
Oil on canvas 16 x 23.1 cm
Private Collection

1850-55c Woman in a Toque with a Mandolin
Oil on canvas
Private Collection

1850-58c Sunset after Rain
Oil on board 42 x 32 cm
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France

1850-59c Portrait of a Young Girl
Oil on canvas 25.2 x 21 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1850-60 reworked 1965-70c Bacchante a la panthere
Oil on canvas 54.6 x 95.3 cm
Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont

1850-60c An Orchard at Harvest Time
Oil on canvas
Private Collection

1850-60c Figures in a Forest
Oil
Private Collection

1850-60c Gouvieux Road, near Chantilly
Oil on canvas 25 x 35 cm
Private Collection

1850-60c Gypsy with a Basque Tamborine
Oil on canvas 60 x 38.5 cm
Private Collection

1850-60c Intérieur au Mas-Bilier, près de Limoges
Oil on canvas 40 x 55 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

1850-60c Landscape with Three Figures
Oil on canvas 46.3 x 56 cm
Private Collection

1850-60c The Bridge at Grez-sur-Loing
Oil on canvas
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH

1850-60c The Cart
Oil on paper mounted on canvas
Private Collection

1850-60c View near Epernon
Oil on canvas 33.8 x 55.3 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1850-61 Le soir – La danse des nymphes
Oil on canvas 82 x 66.7 cm
McLean Museum and Art Gallery, Inverclyde, Scotland

1850-72 Mont Ussy, Souvenir of Fontainbleau
Oil on canvas 41.9 x 54.6 cm
Milwaukee Art Museum, WS

1850c Abandoned Quarry in Fontainebleau
Oil on canvas 29 x 43 cm
De Mesdag Collectie, The Hague, Netherlands

1850c Pond with Three Cows and a Crescent Moon
Oil on canvas
Private Collection