Room 142

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

1796–1875, France, Barbizon School

Corot was one of the first to paint directly in nature: in the Roman Campagna, in the forest of Fontainebleau, by ponds and rivers. His early oil sketches are clear and bright, his late landscapes silvery and as if bathed in haze. He generously supported younger painters and became a model for the Impressionists.

All works

• The Island and Bridge of San Bartolomeo, Rome
• Forest of Fontainebleau
• A View near Volterra
• Ville-d'Avray
• Agostina
• Beach near Etretat
• Madame Stumpf and Her Daughter
• The Eel Gatherers
• Souvenir of Terracina
• River View
• The Repose
• The Moored Boatman: Souvenir of an Italian Lake
• Dance under the Trees at the Edge of the Lake
• Italian Woman (La Morieri)
• Gypsy Woman with Mandolin
• Portrait of a Young Girl
• Italian Peasant Boy
• Corot's Studio: Woman Seated Before an Easel, a Mandolin in her Hand
• Bridge on the Saône River at Mâcon
• Saint Sebastian Succored by the Holy Women
• View near Epernon
• The Forest of Coubron
• Rocks in the Forest of Fontainebleau
• Landscape
• Woman in a Hammock
• Souvenir of Tuscany
• A Nude Reclining in a Landscape
• Willows and White Poplars (Saules et peupliers blancs)
• Willows and White Poplars (Saules et peupliers blancs)
• Family at Terracina (Une famille a terracine)
• Souvenir of Italy (Souvenir d'Italie)
• The Philosophers' Retreat (Le Repos des Philosophes)
• Italian Landscape
• The Cathedral of Florence (Le Dome florentin)
• Souvenir of Tuscany (Souvenir de Toscane)
• Sappho (Sapho)
• Woman Reading in the Studio