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Artist:Camille Corot (French, Paris 1796–1875 Paris)
Date:ca. 1865
Medium:Oil on wood
Dimensions:21 1/2 x 14 1/4 in. (54.6 x 36.2 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1929
This work owes much of its character to the precedent of the eighteenth-century French painter Chardin. Yet the motif and handling also reflect an awareness of seventeenth-century Dutch painting, particularly Vermeer and de Hooch, whose works Corot could have seen during a trip to Holland in 1854. This picture was probably painted around the time Vermeer’s art was enjoying a revival of interest.
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