La Cervara, the Roman Campagna (Q41515823)

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artist: Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (Q148475)
collection: Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location: Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
material used: oil paint (Q296955) canvas (Q12321255)
location of final assembly: France (Q142)
exhibition history: Corot 1796-1875 (Q41288846) Salon of 1831 (Q15118718)
depicts: tree (Q10884)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)
Salons ID: 137284

catalog URL: https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.91

information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog

description: Corot based his large oil painting on drawings and oil sketches made outdoors. Attracted to the beauty of the Italian countryside, he often sketched around Rome, where he lived from 1825 to 1828. This painting's highly structured composition, based on forms moving into the distance along a series of diagonals, is characteristic of Corot's early style and recalls the classical landscapes of 17th-century painter Nicholas Poussin.

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