Bosvijver
Camille Corot
1840 - 1875
Medium
oil on panel
Dimensions
9.2; 52; 32; 1.1
About this artwork
drager: hoogte 32 cm x breedte 52 cm x dikte 1,1 cm
About the Artist
Camille Corot · 1796–1875
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, born in Paris on July 16, 1796, into a prosperous bourgeois family—his father a former wig maker turned draper, his mother a successful milliner—initially resisted his artistic calling. After a lackluster education at the Lycée Pierre-Corneille in Rouen and failed apprenticeships in business, he abandoned commerce at age 26, thanks to a generous parental allowance foll...