Details
- Object type
painting
- Title
Maison de Paysans a Fontainebleau
- Artist/Maker
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot artist
- Culture/School
French
- Place Associated
France, Fontainebleau
- Date
1860-1870
- Materials
oil on canvas
- Dimensions
framed: 822 mm x 736 mm x 89 mm; framed: 828 mm x 738 mm x 117 mm; unframed: 559 mm x 463 mm
- Description
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During the last two decades of his life Corot painted many pictures of tidy barnyards and kitchen yards. As here, most of these works show peasant women, children and chickens busy with routine daily chores. As Gary Tinterow has written, these paintings are visions ‘of timeless rural contentment that emanate from deep within the psyche of the French people… retain their power to evoke a compelling alternative to cramped, urban life.’
Such scenes were a speciality of the Barbizon painters – artists like Jacque, Millet and Hervier – and it was with paintings such as this that Corot was closest to his Barbizon contemporaries. The young Impressionists are thought to have admired these naturalistic paintings – particularly in the 1860s – though it is not known which of Corot’s works they could have seen.
- Credit Line/Donor
Gifted by Sir William and Lady Burrell to the City of Glasgow, 1944
- Collection
Burrell Collection: Pictures [Oils, Pastels and Watercolours]
- ID Number
35.61
- Location
Burrell Collection
- Related People