Reading Beneath the Trees (La Lecture sous les arbres)
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot · 1874 · lithograph on yellow paper
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About this picture
Reading Beneath the Trees (La Lecture sous les arbres) is a public-domain illustration by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, dated 1874. Lithograph on yellow paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Reading Beneath the Trees (La Lecture sous les arbres)” (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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