Mountainous Landscape

Camille Corot

Date unknown · Oil on paper, laid down on canvas · European Paintings

Corot used the full width of his brush to quickly describe the broad features of this rolling landscape. From an elevated position he framed the vista between the hill that rises to the left and the body of water at the lower right; their round forms bring a tenuous balance to this otherwise casual composition. Only a few dabs of paint—red for the shepherdess and brown for the flock below her—serve to indicate scale. Neither the date of the sketch nor the view depicted has been securely identified.

Artist

Camille Corot

Date

Date unknown

Medium

Oil on paper, laid down on canvas

Department

European Paintings

Credit line

Thaw Collection, Jointly Owned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2009