Landscape
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Plate: 7 1/16 × 9 11/16 in. (18 × 24.6 cm) Sheet: 7 11/16 × 10 7/8 in. (19.5 × 27.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.500.444
Tags
Art Historical Context
This serene *Landscape*, an etching created between 1873 and 1890, showcases a collaboration between Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, the esteemed French artist of the Barbizon school, and Ferdinand Lefman. Corot (1796–1875), renowned for his luminous, poetic landscapes that bridged Romanticism and Impressionism, prepared the plate in his later years, with Lefman handling the printing posthumously. The composition captures a tranquil scene of trees and figures—possibly men—evoking the quiet beauty of the French countryside, a recurring theme in Corot's oeuvre. Etching, an intaglio printmaking tec...
About the Artist
Camille Corot|Ferdinand Lefman · 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...