Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875)
La Cervara, the Roman Campagna
c. 1830–31
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's 'La Cervara, the Roman Campagna' (1827) dates to the French master's formative Italian years and catches the arid hills south-east of Rome in the still morning light that Corot pursued with near-scientific discipline. The patient modelling of shadow and the careful equilibrium of earth, sky, and distant structures made Corot the decisive transitional figure between 18th-century classical landscape and the Barbizon school. Oil on fabric, Cleveland Museum of Art.
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