The Quarry of Chaise-Marie at Fontainebleau (Q18177692)

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genre: landscape art (Q191163)
artist: Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (Q148475)
collection: Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK) (Q2365880)
location: Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK) (Q2365880)
material used: oil paint (Q296955) canvas (Q12321255)
exhibition history: Corot 1796-1875 (Q41288846)
depicts: tree (Q10884) quarry (Q188040) sky (Q527)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)
MSK Gent work PID: 1914-DI
BALaT object ID: 104238

catalog URL: http://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1914-DI

information from the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK) catalog

description: In about 1830 it was Jean Baptiste Camille Corot who was one of the first artists to visit Barbizon, a village on the edge of the Forest of Fontainebleau, where the so-called Barbizon school was founded. Many of his studies were done in the open air and in the classical tradition this was in…

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