Reading Beneath the Trees
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot · 1874 · Transfer lithograph printed in black on light gray China paper laid down on white wove paper
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Reading Beneath the Trees is a public-domain illustration by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, dated 1874. Transfer lithograph printed in black on light gray China paper laid down on white wove paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Reading Beneath the Trees” (1874) is the kind of softly lit landscape Corot sketched on the spot in Italy or France and then assembled in the studio.
About the artist
Camille Corot (1796–1875) was a French landscape painter. He sketched in Italy and France, then built silvery, softly lit woodland pictures in the studio that were widely copied.
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