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Femme Lisant

by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot · 1869

Femme Lisant by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Artist

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, or simply Camille Corot, was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. A pivotal figure in landscape painting, his vast output simultaneously referenced the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipated the plein-air innovations of Impressionism.

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Artwork

A Woman Reading is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, created in 1869. The painting is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.

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Artist
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Year
1869
Movement
Romanticism
Country
France
Location
Metropolitan Museum of Art