Minneapolis Institute of Art

A Torrent at Romagnes

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Date

after 1862

Medium

Oil on canvas

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

France was defeated, broken in body and spirit, at the end of the bloody Franco-Prussian War in 1871. The comfort and beauty of landscape paintings was a balm, a boost to morale. Jules Castagnary, a critic at the time, commented, Landscape remains the strength and glory of our French school. Although the jury went through it like a plow through a green field, there are still enough beautiful examples to prove to foreigners that we have not degenerated, at least not in this area. Corot became a poet of landscape painting with images like this, the women walking beside the torrential river representing the peace and wellness of the French after the war. Europe

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