The Ambush (L'Embuscade)
1858
Medium
Cliché-verre
Dimensions
plate: 8 5/8 x 6 1/4 in. (21.9 x 15.9 cm) sheet: 8 5/8 x 6 1/4 in. (21.9 x 15.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1991
Accession Number
1991.1072
Tags
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...