Le Monte Soracte, Italy
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (Paris 1796 - Paris 1875)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1826
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
260 x 380 mm
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Mottisfont, Hampshire
NT 769773
Caption
Monte Soratte, or Soracte (to use the ancient name) is a mountain ridge in the Roman countryside. Its beauty was recorded by numerous artists, as well as authors such as Horace, Virgil and Goethe. Corot was a French realist painter of the Barbizon school, who travelled to Italy in 1825 to 1828, which was essential for his formation as a landscape artist. This painting was done during this early trip to Italy, but he later returned there in 1834 and 1843. During these trips Corot painted ‘en plein air’ (in the open) and filled many notebooks with drawings. His early Italian sketches, such as this one, were clearly defined with fluid and bold strokes.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Le Monte Soracte by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (Paris 1796 - Paris 1875), 1826.
Provenance
Presented by Derek Hill (1916 - 2000) through The National Art Collections Fund (Art Fund), 1996
Credit line
Mottisfont Abbey,The Derek Hill Collection (presented to the National Trust through the National Art-Collections Fund in 1996)
Makers and roles
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (Paris 1796 - Paris 1875), artist