Object Record
Images
Metadata
Object ID Number |
OXN55.01 |
Artist |
Corot, Jean-Baptiste Camille |
Title |
A Balmy Afternoon |
Date |
1850-1875 |
Medium |
Oil on canvas |
Credit Line |
Gift of Bishop & Mrs. G. Bromley Oxnam |
Culture |
European/French |
Collection |
Survey Collection |
Object Name |
Painting |
Description |
This is a small, horizontal landscape with two figures in a boat at the edge of a lake. A red-roofed house is depicted as well as intermittent saplings. Clump of three large trees dominate right half of painting. Sculpted gilt frame Label copy: Corot, one of the great French painters of the nineteenth century is generally identified as a member of the Barbizon group. In fact, he was an independent figure with wider ranging interests in painting. A Balmy Afternoon does have affinities with the work of the Barbizon school and is typical of the manner that brought Corot popularity for decades during his lifetime and after. "Fluffy trees, some grassed and shrubs flecked here and there with bits of light, a sweet body of quiet water, a mild sky, and a few small, graceful figures are combined and recombined in these pictures," in the words of John Canday. |