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La Cervara, the Roman Campagna

c. 1830–31

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

(French, 1796–1875)
Culture
France, 19th century
Medium
oil on fabric
Measurements
Framed: 130 x 167.5 x 9.5 cm (51 3/16 x 65 15/16 x 3 3/4 in.); Unframed: 97.6 x 135.8 cm (38 7/16 x 53 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1963.91
Public Domain
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Location
219 19th Century European
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In 1845, the French poet Charles Baudelaire proclaimed Corot the leading painter of the modern landscape.

Description

Corot based his large oil painting on drawings and oil sketches made outdoors. Attracted to the beauty of the Italian countryside, he often sketched around Rome, where he lived from 1825 to 1828. This painting's highly structured composition, based on forms moving into the distance along a series of diagonals, is characteristic of Corot's early style and recalls the classical landscapes of 17th-century painter Nicholas Poussin.
An oil painting of a countryside landscape with mountains and hills in the distance underneath a blue sky. In the foreground, there are two groups of people. The group on our left is standing together and the group on the right is herding cattle.

La Cervara, the Roman Campagna

c. 1830–31

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

(French, 1796–1875)
France, 19th century

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