Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
1796-1875
Moonlit Landscape
1862
18 5/8 x 13 3/8 inches (473 x 338 mm)
Charcoal, stumped and scratched, with white chalk and overall fixative on light brown wove paper
2022.323
Gift of Karen B. Cohen in Honor of Colin B. Bailey.
Notes
Corot exploited the potential of charcoalʼs velvety deep blackness to convey the vague forms of trees as the eye would perceive them after adjusting to the darkness of a nocturnal walk. Such sheets continue the Romantic taste for moonlit landscapes and prefigure the sense of mystery conjured by dark media in the hands of Symbolist Odilon Redon (1840-1916).
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Cohen, Karen B., former owner.
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Century Drawings
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