1870 (ca.), Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Landscape -- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond)
From the museum label: The expansion of the railroad during the 19th century greatly enhanced opportunities for travel throughout France. Corot regularly traveled from Paris to the villages near the Forest of Fontainebleau, where he was an active member of a group of landscape painters known as the Barbizon School. At first, Corot sketched on-site in the forest, then returned to his studio in Paris to compose paintings based on his drawings, but by the end of his career he was working entirely outdoors, or en plein air, and his depictions of the landscape were becoming looser, as can be seen in the rapid lines of this drawing.
1870 (ca.), Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Landscape -- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond)
From the museum label: The expansion of the railroad during the 19th century greatly enhanced opportunities for travel throughout France. Corot regularly traveled from Paris to the villages near the Forest of Fontainebleau, where he was an active member of a group of landscape painters known as the Barbizon School. At first, Corot sketched on-site in the forest, then returned to his studio in Paris to compose paintings based on his drawings, but by the end of his career he was working entirely outdoors, or en plein air, and his depictions of the landscape were becoming looser, as can be seen in the rapid lines of this drawing.