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Description: | Signed: yes Description: This work is executed very much in the style of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875), a master of landscapes and the precursor of Impressionism who was widely copied by less successful colleagues, pupils and friends. The conception of its motif - trees with a bridge and a house at the background - comes from an established format of French landscape painting. The subject probably derives from a work of Corot's teacher Jean Victor Bertin (1767-1842), Untitled Lithograph (1823, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris). Resemblances can also be found in Louis Auguste Gérard's Landscape with a Bridge (about 1820, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge). In terms of composition, it is reminiscent of Corot's Le Vieux Pont De Mantes (1850-60, Surville Collection). Bridges in natural settings, particularly set at Mantes, was a subject Corot revisited at various stages in his career, showing that he was a traditional landscape artist in terms of approaching his subject matter, despite his working methods which were revolutionary for the time, i.e. painting from nature. | Subjects: | landscape | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (French painter and draftsman, 1796-1875) Æ Attributed to manner of | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8518... | Go to resource |
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