Etching Campagne Boisèe by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1866

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Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (Paris 1796 - Paris 1875) was a French painter and engraver considered one of the greatest landscape painters of his time. He was born into a bourgeois family that directed him towards the trade of fabrics and textiles, this work was not for him so much so that at the age of twenty-six years interrupted this road to devote himself to painting especially landscapes. The real artistic training took place between 1821 and 1822 at the painter Michallon that made him discover the beauty of painting en plein air. In 1825 he went to Italy for the Grand Tour, traveled to the main cities of art, from which he returned with two hundred drawings and one hundred and fifty paintings. In his works the landscape is idealized but described with careful and accurate research from life. This print was made to illustrate Frederic Henriet's 1866 volume Paysagiste aux champs. An artistic treatise on the bucolic landscape enriched with 13 original engravings by the best French artists of the time. Through vibrant and nervous strokes we see represented an intense prospective rural foreshortening marked by successive planes, almost a theatrical backdrop. The light creates dazzling atmospheres. The foreground is shrouded in shadow, on the left the copious foliage of the trees hides the trunks from view while on the right slender plants grow towards the sky. Among these trunks, under the intertwined branches, we notice a peasant woman with her back turned, perhaps stooping to pick some fruit. In the background, on the slopes of a mountain range, there is a humble house surrounded by bushes. The sky, which occupies almost half of the sheet, is marked by long parallel lines. At lower left in the subject the signature Carot, beyond the image "Corot inv. et sc./Imp.Delatre,Paris." Excellent impression, with intense blacks. Excellent state of preservation. Wide margins beyond the beat of the copper. Bibliography: Delteil, 8. Melot, 8.

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