Rocks in the Forest of Fontainebleau
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, 1860/1865
- Artist
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
- Date
- 1860/1865
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 46 × 59 cm
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art, Washington
- Licence
- Public domain, CC0
Image description
Dense green vegetation surrounds a band of sun-dappled boulders that arc shallowly across this horizontal landscape painting. Just to our left of center and on our side of the boulders are several slender tree trunks. The area beyond the boulders is a haze of loosely painted moss and pine green. The tree trunks and rocks are painted in tones of sable, peanut, sand, and dark brown. The artist signed the lower left, “COROT.”