The Repose
1860, reworked c. 1865/1870
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 57.8 × 101.6 cm (22 3/4 × 40 in.) framed: 83.8 × 127.3 × 12.1 cm (33 × 50 1/8 × 4 3/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)
Accession Number
2014.79.709
About the Artist
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, born on July 16, 1796, in Paris to a prosperous bourgeois family—his father a former wig-maker turned draper and his mother a successful milliner—was initially apprenticed in the textile trade but pursued art from his mid-twenties with family support. He studied under the neoclassical landscapist Achille Etna Michallon in 1821–1822, who taught him to sketch outdoors in...