View of Rome from Monte Pincio, 1826
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corotexpand_more
Oil on paper mounted on canvasexpand_more
Gift of a member of the Hill family in celebration of the MIA's 100th anniversaryexpand_more 2014.113
On View in Gallery 321expand_more
Corot is universally regarded as the most influential artist of the Barbizon school, and this oil sketch is a beautiful example of his genius as a landscape painter. Seven of the Corot paintings in the museum’s collection were gifts from the Hill family - View of St. Peter’s, Rome now makes eight.
Details
- Title
- View of Rome from Monte Pincio
- Artist Life
- 1796 - 1875
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2014.113
- Catalogue Raisonne
- A. Robaut, L'oeuvre de Corot, Catalogue raisonne et illustre, Paris, 1902, vol. 2, no. 77, p. 32, as "Rome-Vue Prise du Monte Pincio."
- Curator Approved
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