1864, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Thatched Village -- Baltimore Museum of Art
From the museum label:
While a student in Rome in the mid-1820s, Corot began to paint en plein air as a preliminary step toward preparing his "finished" compositions in his studio. The distinction between these two phases of his creative process would gradually diminish, and he would find a ready market for the oils that he sketched outdoors as well as his more fully developed studio works.
In the 1850s, Corot gradually turned from the bright, clearly defined landscapes of his earlier years to more subtle, poetic visions of nature in which he sought not only to record his visual observations of a site, but to convey, as in this work, a personal, emotive response to the scene before him. The town of Flesselles is north of Paris in the Picardy region of France.
1864, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Thatched Village -- Baltimore Museum of Art
From the museum label:
While a student in Rome in the mid-1820s, Corot began to paint en plein air as a preliminary step toward preparing his "finished" compositions in his studio. The distinction between these two phases of his creative process would gradually diminish, and he would find a ready market for the oils that he sketched outdoors as well as his more fully developed studio works.
In the 1850s, Corot gradually turned from the bright, clearly defined landscapes of his earlier years to more subtle, poetic visions of nature in which he sought not only to record his visual observations of a site, but to convey, as in this work, a personal, emotive response to the scene before him. The town of Flesselles is north of Paris in the Picardy region of France.