Musée No:206.020
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Bathers of the Borromean Isles
Artist: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Dated: ca. 1865–70
Camille Corot (1796-1875) was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker. He was an incredibly important and pivotal figure in landscape painting. Hi huge number of paintings show both the Neo-Classical tradition and the new wave of plein-air innovations, Impressionism. He was a founder of the famous Barbizon school where he taught, amongst others, Bethe Morisot and Camille Pissarro. His parents had worked hard and built up a successful milliner business which allowed him to pursue his love of painting. Although his paintings were often featured at the Salon in Paris he hardly sold any in the 1830s, it was in the following two decades that his work became popular. He preferred to work outside rather than in the confines of a studio. Early in his career in the 1820s he told a friend “All I really want to do in life is paint landscapes. This firm resolve will stop me forming any serious attachments. That is to say, I shall not get married.” He was known to be both generous and kind and was called affectionately as ‘Papa Corot’.
This painting of the Borromean Islands, in Lake Maggiore in Northern Italy, was painted from memory more than 20 years after his last trip to the country.
Artist: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Dated: ca. 1865–70
Camille Corot (1796-1875) was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker. He was an incredibly important and pivotal figure in landscape painting. Hi huge number of paintings show both the Neo-Classical tradition and the new wave of plein-air innovations, Impressionism. He was a founder of the famous Barbizon school where he taught, amongst others, Bethe Morisot and Camille Pissarro. His parents had worked hard and built up a successful milliner business which allowed him to pursue his love of painting. Although his paintings were often featured at the Salon in Paris he hardly sold any in the 1830s, it was in the following two decades that his work became popular. He preferred to work outside rather than in the confines of a studio. Early in his career in the 1820s he told a friend “All I really want to do in life is paint landscapes. This firm resolve will stop me forming any serious attachments. That is to say, I shall not get married.” He was known to be both generous and kind and was called affectionately as ‘Papa Corot’.
This painting of the Borromean Islands, in Lake Maggiore in Northern Italy, was painted from memory more than 20 years after his last trip to the country.
