Italian Landscape

Camille Corot

ca. 1825–28 · Oil on paper, laid down on canvas · European Paintings

At the age of twenty-nine, three years after choosing to become a painter, Corot left Paris for his first Italian sojourn (1825–28). In Rome he joined a growing number of artists who formed one of the earliest schools of open-air landscape painting. Corot devoted much of his energy to small views of Rome and studies, like this one, of the surrounding countryside.

Artist

Camille Corot

Date

ca. 1825–28

Medium

Oil on paper, laid down on canvas

Department

European Paintings

Credit line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William B. Jaffe, 1950