1834
oil
canvas
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Dominant colour
View of Genoa is a 1834 oil by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, a Realism work, depicting Genoa, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
Corot painted Genoa’s harbor in 1834 with soft gray-blue strokes. The foreground shows a few people walking near the water. Their faces are just hints—no details. This sketchy style was new in the 1800s. Corot used oil on paper, not the usual canvas, to capture light fast. The paper gave his colors a loose, airy feel. Look closer to see how he layered thin glazes for that soft glow. Try the Art Institute of Chicago.
Estate of the artist, Paris; sold Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 26-28, 1875, lot 68, for 3.550 fr. to M. Brame [annotated sale catalogue in object file]; Brame collection, Paris, 1875 until before 1890. Ernest May, Paris, until 1890; sold Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 4, 1890, lot 20, for 7.100 fr. [sale catalogue in object file]. Martin A. Ryerson (1856–1932), Chicago, by 1905 [Robault, 1905]; by descent to his wife Carrie Hutchinson Ryerson (1859–1937), Chicago, 1932 [Last Will and Testament of Martin A. Ryerson, Died August 11, 1932, copy in Institutional Archives, Art Institute of…
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Corot, Daumier: Eight Loan Exhibition, October 16 – November 23, 1930, cat. 14 (ill.). New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Loan Exhibition of Figure and Landscape Paintings by J.B.C. Corot, November 12 – December 1, 1934, cat. 2 (ill.). New York, Wildenstein & Co., The Serene World of Corot: An Exhibition in Aid of the Salvation Army War Fund, November 11 – December 12, 1942, cat. 17 (ill.). Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Small Paintings by Corot, November 6 – December 4, 1943. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Corot 1796-1875, May 11 – June 16, 1946, cat. 16 (ill.). Art…
Alfred Robaut, L’Oeuvre de Corot: Catalogue raisonné et illustré, précédé de l’histoire de Corot et de ses oeuvres vol. 2 (Paris: H. Floury, 1905), no. 301 (ill.) (reprinted Paris 1965). Julius Meier-Graefe, Corot (Berlin: Bruno Cassirer und Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1930), 46. Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report (1937), 46. “Small Paintings by Corot,” Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts Monthly Bulletin, 14 (November 1943): n. pag. Germain Bazin, “Sotto gli occhi di Corot la natura si disponeva come in un quadro,” La Biennale di Venezia 8 (April 1952): 4 (ill.). Giulia Veronese “Corot,” Emporium…
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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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