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Artist:Camille Corot (French, Paris 1796–1875 Paris)
Date:ca. 1865
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:18 1/8 x 13 7/8 in. (46 x 35.2 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
Accession Number:29.100.193
The model for this work may have been Emma Dobigny, who often sat for Corot at the end of his career. Corot painted four other Muses in the 1860s. All of them evoke a mood of melancholy.
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