 |
| Jean Baptiste Camille Corot art links |
N.B. For the sake of readability, we have organized external links into the following different tabs:
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Many works by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
8 works by Corot
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Italian Landscape, 1835
Landscape with Lake and Boatman, 1839
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Recollection of Mortefontaine, 1864
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Bridge at Narni, 1826
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Chartres Cathedral, 1830
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Woman with the Pearl, ca.1868-70
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Hymn to the Sun (Orpheus Greeting the Light), 1865
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Portrait of a Young Woman in a Large Hat, 'My Hagar', graphite drawing, ca.1830
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) NEW! 
An enormous number of works on paper online
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Many works, including: Bacchante by the Sea, 1865
Hagar in the Wilderness, 1835
The Environs of Paris, 1860s
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Commentary on The Dance of the Nymphs
Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris
Many works by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot online
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
(Zoomify viewer requires Java in order to view images)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
3 cliché-verre prints online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
21 works by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Fishing with Nets, 1847
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Many works
National Gallery, London, UK NEW!
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)
La clairière. Souvenir de Ville-d'Avray, 1872
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
4 works by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot online
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
The Harbor of La Rochelle (Le Port de la Rochelle)
Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia
Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
The Goatherd of Terni, ca.1871-72
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Nymphes et Faunes (Nymphs and Fauns)
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
The Pond
Bowes Museum, County Durham, UK
Landscape with Cattle
Brooklyn Museum, New York City NEW!
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin
Orpheus Greeting the Dawn, or Hymn to the Sun, 1865
Chi-Mei Museum, Taiwan (in Chinese)
Batelier a la point de l'ile
Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand NEW!
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
(You may need to click "I accept these terms")
Ruins of the Chateau of Pierrefonds
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Well Among the Dunes, ca.1854
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
The Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome, ca.1835-40
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts - Provenance Research Project
Washerwomen in a Willow Grove, 1871
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Landscape (The Large Tree)
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Repose
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
6 works by or related to the artist
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Environs de Rome
Le Dome Florentin
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Palluel, Boater in the Marshes, 1871
The Bath of Diana (Le Bain de Diane), ca.1855
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts
The Inn at Montigny-les-Cormeilles, 1825-31
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
(Click on the title to see a specific work, then click on the image to enlarge)
A Girl Reading, 1845-50
Sitting Monk, Reading, ca.1865
The Four Trees by the Plain, 1869-70
Finnish National Gallery Art Collections, Helsinki, Finland NEW!
Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
Le Repos du vacher au pied des fraiches collines
Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Woodcutter, ca.1865-70
Frick Collection, New York City
7 works online
Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Distant View of Corbeil from behind the trees: Morning, ca.1870
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Joslyn Art Museum, Nebraska
You must type "corot" into the top left search box and click the "GO" button
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
View of Olevano
Orpheus Lamenting Eurydice
The Stonecutters
Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany (in German)
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "C"
Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Switzerland (mostly in German)
Le Musée de la Chartreuse de Douai, France (in French)
Le château de Wagnonville
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
(Note: Click the title to view the artwork details, not the thumbnail image.)
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
A Mill Wheel
Clearing in the Woods
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
6 paintings
Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil and Wife Museum, Egypt
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France
L'Etoile du Matin, 1864
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France (in French)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, France (partly in French)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France (in French)
L'Atelier
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper, France (in French)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)
(If the image is not clickable, click "Agrandir l'image" to enlarge the image)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France (in French) NEW!
Ville d'Avray, l'étang au bouleau devant les villas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France (in French) NEW!
Les Quais marchands de Rouen
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseilles, France (in French) NEW!
Vue rise de Riva
Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (in French)
Souvenir d'Eza, 1874
Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (in French)
Deux personnages sous les arbres au bord des marais, 1855-60
Musee Magnin, Dijon, France NEW!
Museo del Corso, Rome (in Italian)
Colpo di vento
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)
Museum Collection Database for the Region of Haute-Normandie, France NEW!
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Reminiscence of the Beach of Naples, 1870-72
National Museums and Galleries of Wales
National Museums Liverpool, UK
The Cow at the Watering Place
New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
2 works online
New Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
Landscape from the Region around Civita Castellana with a View towards Monte Soratte, 1827
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Le tombeau de Semiramis, cliche-verre, 1854
New-York Historical Society
Landscape and Figures, 1874
Oglethorpe University Museum, Georgia
Oskar Reinhart Collection, Switzerland
Chestnut Wood among Rocks, ca.1830-35
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, Italy (in Italian)
Mini-site for a 2005-2006 exhibition. Click "La Mostra" to see 3 pages of artworks.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
(Tip: On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image)
17 works by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot online
Philbrook Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Gardeuses de Porce
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona NEW!
Courtyard with Nuns, 1855
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona NEW!
Souvenir de Ville d'Avray, 1865-70
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Hay Wagon, ca.1860
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Les hauteurs de Sèvres. Pâture enclose, 1865-70
(Great, huge scan, but the viewing window doesn't allow you to see the whole image. Here's a direct link to the image that you can scroll.)
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Girl with Mandolin, 1860-65
Valle Solitaire, 1870-74
San Diego Museum of Art, California
A River Scene with Houses and Poplars, 1850-55
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
Trees at Musigny, drawing, 1840-45
Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Landscape At Limay
Southampton City Art Gallery, England
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)
Click "Immagini" for several large images from a 2005-2006 exhibition
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German) NEW!
The British Museum, London, UK
The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas
The Ordrupgaard Collection, Charlottenlund, Denmark NEW!
The Windmill, 1835-40
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
Macbeth and the Witches, ca.1858/59
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
- to switch to English, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "English Version"
- images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image
- you can zoom in via the mouse scroll wheel, then click the image and drag it around
Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California
View of Volterra
Tweed Museum of Art at the University of Minnesota, Duluth
The Uphill Road (Gouvieux near Chantilly), ca.1855-60
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)
Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Landscape
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba NEW!
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE) NEW!
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Artnet Magazine
Le hallebardier, 1868-70
ARTnews
Brief survey on art forgery, in which Corot is the almost unanimous choice for the most-faked artist of all time
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
Slate Magazine
"Water Works: The fluid art of Camille Corot," article by Christopher Benfey
Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio NEW!
"The Conservation of Three Late Landscapes by Corot", an illustrated article in .PDF format
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Woman in a Bridal Dress, 1855-65
Time Magazine
"Bringing Nature Home", 1996 article by Robert Hughes
|
|
|
|
|
