Circle of Camille Corot

Circle of CAMILLE COROT, (Paris, 1796 - 1875).
"Country dance".
Oil on canvas.
With apocryphal signature.
Measurements: 27 x 35 cm, 37 x 45 cm (frame).

Painting of French school included in the circle of Corot. The painting of the nymphs dancing in a forest clearing, the famous oil of Corot, inspires this landscape, in which the figure is also dwarfed by the majesty of nature. The atmospheric capture stands out, the soft iridescent shades that build vaporous canopies on the trees and make the light play on the meadow.

Camille Corot was born in Paris but grew up in Rouen, where he acquired a taste for nature. He began his artistic training in the studio of the renowned landscape painter Achille-Etna Michallon, and later continued it with Jean-Victor Bertin, a classical landscape painter. Definitive in the configuration of his style and aesthetics were his trips to Italy; there he discovered light, and through it the pictorial language of modernity. He exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1827, being awarded the second medal in 1833 and 1849. He was also a member of the jury on several occasions, and at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1855 he obtained a first class medal. Finally, at the 1860 Salon, his "Dance of the Nymphs" obtained an unprecedented success. Corot's influence was decisive in the first steps of Monet, Renoir and Berthe Morisot, as well as in all of Pissarro's work, although he did not view impressionism as a group with sympathy, due to the anti-institutional rebelliousness of these young people. His work is at the origin of impressionism, along with that of Boudin and Jongkind, and without him perhaps the spatial and constructive value that, years later, Cézanne would give to the impressionist brushstroke would not have been possible. On the other hand, he was the first to give nature to plein air painting. Today Camille Corot is represented in the most important museums around the world, including the Louvre, the Hermitage, the Orsay, the National Gallery and the British Museum in London, the Albertina Museum in Vienna and the Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid.