1871
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
The Poet and His Muse (Le Poete et la muse) is a 1871 by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows tangled brush and grass filling most of the space, with a few faint, small figures tucked in the bottom right. The lines are loose and quick, like scribbles. The whole thing has a soft, warm brown tone. The tiny figures look like a person and maybe an animal or a shadowy shape. The artist used a special printing method called *cliché-verre*—think of it like a photo etched into glass. Next, check out Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille to see how he played with light and nature.
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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