Lake Albano and Castel Gandolfo
Camille Corot
1826–27
Medium
Oil on paper, laid down on wood
Dimensions
9 x 15 1/2 in. (22.9 x 39.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Dikran G. Kelekian Gift, 1922
Accession Number
22.27.2
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
LandscapesLakes
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...