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Home>Exhibitions>Past>2018>Corot: Women

# Corot: Women

September 9 – December 31, 2018West Building, Main Floor, Northeast Galleries

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot*The Blonde Gascon*, c. 1850oil on canvasoverall: 40.01 x 30.16 cm (15 3/4 x 11 7/8 in.)Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Purchased with the Drayton Hillyer FundPhoto by Stephen Petegorsky

**This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.**

Camille Corot is best known as the great master of landscape painting in the 19th century who bridged the French neoclassical tradition with the impressionist movement of the 1870s. His figure paintings constitute a much smaller, less well-known portion of his work, but they appeared throughout his prolific fifty-year career, with particular force toward the end. Rarely seen outside his studio during his lifetime, these works made an impact on later nineteenth- and early twentieth-century modernist artists who copied or borrowed from them, such as Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, and Georges Braque. Dressed in rustic Italian costume or stretched nude on a grassy plain, Corot’s women read, dream, and gaze directly at the viewer, conveying a sense of their inner lives. His sophisticated use of color and his deft, delicate touch applied to the female form resulted in pictures of quiet majesty. The forty-five paintings on display, created between the mid-1830s and the early 1870s, are largely divided into three major subjects: costumed single figures, nudes, and allegorical studio scenes.

The exhibition is curated by Mary Morton, curator and head of the department of French paintings, National Gallery of Art. 

Corot: Women
*Young Italian Woman from Papigno with Her Spindle*, c. 1826–1827, oil on board, Private collection

Corot: Women
*Young Woman in a Pink Skirt*, c. 1845–1850, oil on canvas, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Corot: Women
*Melancholy*, 1860, oil on canvas, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

Corot: Women
*The Muse: History*, c. 1865, oil on canvas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Corot: Women
*Agostina*, 1866, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Chester Dale Collection, 1963

Corot: Women
*Woman with a Pearl*, c. 1868–1870, oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre, Paris, Département des peintures. © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY

Corot: Women
*Interrupted Reading*, c. 1870, oil on canvas mounted on board, The Art Institute of Chicago, Potter Palmer Collection

Corot: Women
*Sibylle*, c. 1870, oil on canvas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Corot: Women
*Jewish Woman of Algeria*, c. 1870, oil on canvas, Private collection

Corot: Women
*Marietta (Roman Odalisque)*, 1843, oil on paper mounted on canvas, Petit Palais, Musée des beaux-arts de la ville de Paris. © Petit Palais / Roger Viollet

Corot: Women
*Reclining Nymph*, 1857–1858, oil on canvas, Musée d'art et d'histoire, ville de Genève, Deposit of the Republic and Canton of Geneva. © Musées d’art et d’histoire, ville de Genève, Dépôt de la République et canton de Genève, 1875

Corot: Women
*The Repose*, 1860, reworked c. 1865–1870, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

Corot: Women
*Corot's Studio: Woman Seated before an Easel, a Mandolin in Her Hand*, c. 1868, oil on wood, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Widener Collection, 1942

Corot: Women
*The Lady in Blue*, 1874, oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre, Paris, Département des peintures. © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY

**Organization:** Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington

**Sponsors:** The exhibition is made possible through the support of The Edwin L. Cox Exhibition Fund and Leonard and Elaine Silverstein.

**Passes:** Admission is always free and passes are not required

**Attendance:** 129,196

**Catalog:**Corot Women. By Mary Morton. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2018

**Other venues:** Musée Marmottan, Paris, February 8–July 22, 2018

                    - Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille
                    - French , 1796 - 1875

SlideshowFrench Neoclassical Tradition

SlideshowImpressionist Movement

EducationChannel Coast PostcardsLessons & Activities

Press

Lectures and Book SigningsIntroduction to the Exhibition—Corot: WomenSeptember 9 at 2:00East Building Auditorium

ConcertLiving Art Collective Ensemble (LACE) and Elisa Monte Dance, interLACEd: Corot and His CircleSeptember 16 at 3:30West Building, West Garden Court

Lectures and Book SigningsPresent Tense: Corot, Photography, and the BodyOctober 20 at 2:00West Building Lecture Hall

                  - Present Tense: Corot, Photography, and the Body 
                  -                                     Audio, Released:                                    November 13, 2018, (52:15 minutes)                                
                  - Introduction to the Exhibition—Corot: Women
                  -                                     Video, Released:                                    September 18, 2018, (50:40 minutes)                                
                  - Introduction to the Exhibition—Corot: Women
                  -                                     Audio, Released:                                    September 11, 2018, (50:40 minutes)                                
                  - Press Event: Corot: Women
                  -                                     Audio, Released:                                    September 5, 2018, (17:25 minutes)                                

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