The Tower of Henry VIII
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot · 1856 · Cliché-verre on ivory photographic paper
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
The Tower of Henry VIII is a public-domain photograph by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, dated 1856. Cliché-verre on ivory photographic paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“The Tower of Henry VIII” (1856) 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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