Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Thatched Village (Flesselles, near Amiens)
1863
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Thatched Village (Flesselles, near Amiens)
1863
Physical Qualities
Oil on wood panel, 14 5/8 x 18 1/4 in. (37.1 x 46.4 cm.)
Credit Line
The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number
1996.45.69
While a student in Rome in the mid-1820s, Corot began to paint 'en plein air' as a preliminary step toward preparing his "finished" compositions in his studio. The distinction between these two phases of his creative process would gradually diminish, and he would find a ready market for the oils that he sketched outdoors as well as his more fully developed studio works.
In the 1850s, Corot gradually turned from the bright, clearly defined landscapes of his earlier years to more subtle, poetic visions of nature in which he sought not only to record his visual observations of a site, but to convey, as in this work, a personal, emotive response to the scene before him. The town of Flesselles is north of Paris in the Picardy region of France.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art,
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
A View Toward Paris: The Lucas Collection of 19th-Century French Art
Jacobs Painting Rotation
2007-03-12 00:00:00
2007-03-12 00:00:00
Barbizon and Impressionist Works from The Baltimore Museum of Art
Jacobs Wing Rotations 2021
A Century of Baltimore Collecting 1840-1940
"From Ingres to Gauguin," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1951, #41.
Art Institute of Chicago, "Works by Camille Corot," Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1960, cat #94, p. 23.
"The George A. Lucas Collection of the Maryland Institute," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1965, #67.
"Lucas Collection," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1974, #67.
Sona K. Johnson et al, "Barbizon and Impressionist Works from The Baltimore Museum of Art," Tokyo: "Barbizon and Impressionist Works from The Baltimore Museum of Art" catalogue committee, 2003, cat. no. 1, p. 30, ill. p. 29.
Robert Catalogue, Chaumieres Bues a Travers Les Arbres au Bord d'une Route, p. 20, listed as Flesselles, a small village near Amiens, cat #1296. BMA News, 'Two Paintings by Corot' by GR Oct 1948, pp. 1-4. G.A. Lucas Diaries, Peabody Library, Nov. 3, 1883 - 'Visit from Robaut to make two drawings of my Corots'
Inscribed: FACE: LL, 'COROT'; VERSO: cradle, ink, '63-2P', Reverse, tape label, '236'. Backed as of 5/21/97, need to verify inscriptions.
