Cleveland Museum of Art
La Cervara, the Roman Campagna
Jean Baptiste Camille CorotLinkedCulture matchlcp-8336033d567b
- Date
- c. 1830–31
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 140078
Corot based his large oil painting on drawings and oil sketches made outdoors. Attracted to the beauty of the Italian countryside, he often sketched around Rome, where he lived from 1825 to 1828. This painting's highly structured composition, based on forms moving into the distance along a series of diagonals, is characteristic of Corot's early style and recalls the classical landscapes of 17th-century painter Nicholas Poussin. In 1845, the French poet Charles Baudelaire proclaimed Corot the leading painter of the modern landscape.
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- Credit line
- Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
- Provenance
- 1889: Clément Jourdan [1836-1908], Paris, France, 1889. | Seganville family, Château St. Pierre-de-Groupiac, France | (Probably Harry Sperling, New York.) | 1960-1963: Paul Rosenberg & Co., Paris and New York, by 1960. | 1963: Paul Rosenberg & Co., Paris, France and New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1963: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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