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Corot: Women

By (author) Mary Morton, Contributions by David Ogawa, Contributions by SÃ©bastien Allard, Contributions by Heather McPherson

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A new appraisal of intriguing and meditative figural works by one of the 19th centuryâ€™s great masters of landscape The women painted by Camille Corot (1796â€“1875) read, dream, and gaze at the viewer, conveying an independent spirit and a sense of their inner lives. Corotâ€™s handling of color and his deft, delicate touch applied to the female form resulted in pictures of quiet majesty. Although these figural paintings constitute a relatively small and little-known portion of his oeuvre, they were of great importance for the founders of modernist painting, such as Paul CÃ©zanne, Pablo Picasso, and Georges Braque. Â This publication encompasses some forty paintings by Corotâ€”from the single-figure bust and full-length images of the 1840s through the 1860s nudes and his allegorical series devoted to the model in the studio. Essays by leading experts in the field address Corotâ€™s debt to the old masters and the impact of his pictures on both 19th- and 20th-century painting, the relationship of his figural work to his more famous landscape practice, his response to the shifting social position of artistsâ€™ models, and the incursion of photography into artistic practice in the Second Empire and early Third Republic. Â Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington Exhibition Schedule: National Gallery of Art, Washington (09/09/18â€“12/30/18)