1842
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Lormes: Goat-Girl Sitting Beside a Stream in a Forest is a 1842 unspecified by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, a Barbizon school work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
A girl in a red skirt sits on the mossy bank of a forest stream, her white goat grazing nearby. Tall trees twist around her, their leaves dappling the light. Corot painted this in Lormes, a quiet village in Burgundy. He didn’t make the girl the focus—she’s small, almost hidden by the tangled branches. The real subject is the way sunlight filters through the leaves, soft and uneven. If you like this quiet, natural mood, look up *sfumato*—a technique that blends edges without sharp lines.
Camille Corot painted this charming woodland scene during the summer of 1842 while visiting Lormes, a small village in the Morvan region of Burgundy. The area was known for its dense woodlands and picturesque falls. Corot included a seated goat shepherd leaning against a curving tree trunk, but instead of commanding the viewers attention, the human presence is overshadowed by the dynamic interlacing forms of the tree trunks and branches that stretch up and across the canvas.
Claude Monet once said: "There is only one master here—Corot. We are nothing compared to him, nothing."
Read the full account in the museum source.
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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