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    • View of Lormes, early 1840s
    Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875)
    Oil on canvas

    6 1/2 x 21 5/8 in. (16.5 x 54.9 cm)
    Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mendelsohn, 1980 (1980.203.4)

    This rapidly executed sketch, made outdoors, is one of several views of the countryside and villages in the Morvan, a mountainous region south of Paris, that Corot painted in the early 1840s.

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  • View of Lormes, early 1840s
    Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875)
    Oil on canvas

    6 1/2 x 21 5/8 in. (16.5 x 54.9 cm)
    Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mendelsohn, 1980 (1980.203.4)