SUNDAY NIGHT ART SNACK: JEAN-BAPTISTE-CAMILLE COROT (1796-1875).

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, commonly referred to as Camille Corot, was an extremely prolific French landscape and portrait artist (and printmaker in etching and early photographer), who essentially fulfilled a bridge function between Neo-Classicism/Realism, and Impressionism, with a transit over Romanticism.


An immense materpiece of a youthful Corot: Le pont de Narni (1926). Actually my personal favorite.




Breathtaking how he captures the reflection of the sunlight on the water!



La femme à la Perle (1869), arguably his best known work:




Imho, a work that can easily compete with La Gioconda.



Souvenir de Mortefontaine (1864).




You can admire it in the Louvre, which has had it since 1889.


Enjoy.


MFBB.