View of Olevano (Q18177387)

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artist: Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (Q148475)
collection: Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
location: Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
owned by: Armand Doria (Q22017910)
material used: oil paint (Q296955) canvas (Q12321255)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)
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catalog URL: https://www.kimbellart.org/collection-object/view-olevano

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description: As the final stage in his artistic education, Corot went to Italy in the fall of 1825. During his nearly three-year-long stay, he toured the countryside so richly evocative of Latin literary classics, as well as the old master landscape paintings by Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain that formed the fountainhead of the French tradition. Corot painted his Italian landscape studies as preliminaries for more traditional large landscapes with figures composed in the studio. But many modern viewers prefer Corot’s oil sketches to the less spontaneous studio works developed from them. Figures, even secondary ones, are rare in these studies, with the implication that Corot recorded nature for its own sake rather than to provide background décor to some historical or literary narrative.

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