1855
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
The Gardens of Horace (Les Jardins d'Horace) is a 1855 by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This image shows a tangled mess of branches and leaves, all in black lines on a light background. The trees look wild, with no clear shapes—just a thick, messy tangle. The edges are rough, and the whole scene feels sketchy, almost like a quick, rough drawing. The artist used a weird technique called *cliché-verre*, where they layered glass plates to print the image. It’s not smooth or polished—it’s more like a half-finished sketch that somehow still feels alive. Next, check out Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille to see how he played with light and nature 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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