1858
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dante and Virgil (Dante et Virgile) is a 1858 by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This painting looks like a dark forest with tangled lines and shadows. The trees are thick and twisty, almost like scribbles. Light fades in from the edges, leaving the middle shadowy. The artist used a weird process—*cliché-verre*—where glass plates and light create this sketchy, almost ghostly effect. It’s not a normal painting. Next, check out Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille to see how he played with light and shadow in other works.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (UK: KORR-oh, US: kə-ROH, kor-OH; French: ; 16 July 1796 – 22 February 1875), or simply Camille Corot, was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching.
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