Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot: Young Woman at Her Toilet

A study of Corot explores a collection of quiet, luminous canvases with miracles of flickering light and subtle color and the life of the French painter who painted them and changed the direction of landscape painting. Original. ...more

Arriving in Rome in 1825, Corot spent three years painting and drawing the landscape nearby. In their freshness and candour, his open-air studies seem to point forward, toward Impressionism. Galassi shows that they also point to the past. Half a century before Corot visited Italy, the community of foreign artists ...more

In this volume, a noted French art Historian--aided by 92 magnificent illustrations, 40 in full color--tells the story of Corot's life and of the development of his art. Madeleine Hours, as Conservateur en Chef at the Louvre, in Paris, where many of Corot's works are on view, brings to her ...more