Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
French, 1796 - 1875Landscape with Figures, ca. 1850
On view
Oil on canvas
Dimensions18 × 25 3/4 in. (45.7 × 65.4 cm)
Framed: 24 1/2 × 32 1/2 in. (62.2 × 82.6 cm)
Gift of Mr. John L. Pierce, 2005.12
The new objective style introduced by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot quietly broke with the accepted art of Neoclassicism and Romanticism in its preference for subdued color tonalities and reduced dramatic action and emotional content. Corot frequently spent extended periods of time living on the periphery of the forest in Fontainebleau along with a group of like-minded artists commonly known as the Barbizon School. These artists completed realistic, natural scenes, very similar in style to Landscape with Figures.
