Landscape at Civita Castellana
Camille Corot French
Not on view
Corot explored the countryside around Civita Castellana, some thirty miles north of Rome, in 1826 and 1827. He responded to the varied terrain with an amazing breadth of technique that ranges from finely detailed topographical renderings in pen and ink to lushly painted oil sketches, but this work is among the most fluid that he made there or at any point in his career. Its rapidity of execution testifies to the artist’s aim of capturing his first impression of this panoramic view. Corot gave this work to his friend Bardon, an obscure figure despite being the first owner of his late masterpiece Lady in Blue (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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