France, 19th century / c. 1830–31
La Cervara, the Roman Campagna
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs La Cervara, the Roman Campagna as painting (France, 19th century · c. 1830–31).
In 1845, the French poet Charles Baudelaire proclaimed Corot the leading painter of the modern landscape.
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The museum identifies this painting as oil on fabric and credits Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875).
The museum's collection notes: Corot based his large oil painting on drawings and oil sketches made outdoors. Attracted to the beauty of the Italian countryside, he often sketched around Rome, where he lived from 1825 to 1828. This painting's highly structured composition, based on forms moving into the distance along a series of diagonals, is characteristic of Corot's early style and recalls the classical landscapes of 17th-century painter Nicholas Poussin.
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