Mother and Child

Camille Corot

probably 1860s · Oil on wood · European Paintings

This small panel, probably done in the 1860s, was evidently well known and admired in Corot's circle of friends. Both Constant Dutilleux (1807–1865) and Charles Desavary (1837–1885), two painters living in Arras, a town in northern France that Corot often visited, copied the painting. About 1873 Corot gave it to his patron Cléophas, who had provided him with a supplementary studio where he could work undisturbed.

Artist

Camille Corot

Date

probably 1860s

Medium

Oil on wood

Department

European Paintings

Credit line

H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Mrs. P. H. B. Frelinghuysen, 1930