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Camille Jean-Baptiste Corot SIZE 21.6 x 15" CM 55x38 DESCRIPTION Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875) attributed: " paysage près Fontainebleau "- oil on canvans The son of a wealthy merchant, he first studied with Michallon and then with Bertin, rigorous classicist landscape painters, but also began to paint from life in the forest of Fontainebleau. A trip to Italy (1825-28), and the meeting with Th. Aligny, a classicist landscape painter with an elegiac tendency, was essential for his training: portraying the Italian landscape and especially the Roman countryside, with dense brushstrokes that maintain the immediacy of perception, he arrived at an extreme sharpness in the distribution of masses, the rendering of light, and the choice of tones. The same acute investigation of form can be found in the figure paintings, an intimate and unofficial experience that extended from the portraits of peasants in the Agro Romano to the variants of the Atelier up to the Woman in Blue of 1874. But alongside the renewal of painting in his paintings from life, C. did not cease to investigate the possibility of reworking paintings destined for the public according to classical canons: a comparison between the study of The Bridge of Narni and the work reworked for the Salon of 1827 may be exemplary. His life was a continuous journey in search of a lyricism and at the same time a vigorous truthfulness of vision of pictorial motifs: he was again in Italy on several occasions (1834, 1843), explored all regions of France, and visited Holland and England. He achieved a certain amount of success, especially since the Salon of 1855, but his research, although untouched by the new instances of realism and impressionism, was disliked by the official critics. His generosity towards less fortunate artists (he helped blind Daumier, Millet's widow) led him to validate many of his pupils' works with his signature, after having just retouched them. CONDITION Very good condition. aged wood, well conserved. NOTE: If documentation is not listed, the lot is sold as after , without documents. Please refer to our Terms and Conditions prior to bidding. Color fidelity of photos presented is not guaranteed. Lack of a condition statement does not imply that a lot is perfect. Please examine photos, read descriptions, and contact the Gallery with any questions prior to bidding. All sales are final. PROVENANCE Private collection.