Orpheus Lamenting Eurydice (Q18177388)
Label from: English (en)
genre:
mythological painting (Q3374376)
artist:
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (Q148475)
collection:
Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
location:
Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
depicts:
Orpheus (Q174353)
instance of:
painting (Q3305213)
Google Arts & Culture asset ID:
cgExMDYP7Ixe1w
catalog URL: https://www.kimbellart.org/collection-object/orpheus-lamenting-eurydice
information from the Kimbell Art Museum catalog
description: The celebrated landscape painter Corot was among the leading members of the so-called Barbizon school, which was committed to working directly from nature. But he was active at the same time as a painter of dreamlike fantasy landscapes. He undertook several works in response to a production of Gluck’s celebrated opera Orfeo, based on the classical myth of Orpheus—the musician who enchants all his listeners, even animals. The largest of Corot’s Orpheus paintings, exhibited at the Salon of 1861, is today in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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