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Honfleur: Calvary

ca. 1830
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 802
The site of the Calvary, a shrine built in 1628 at the top of a cliff overlooking the medieval town of Honfleur, was popular in the nineteenth century among tourists, pilgrims, and people offering prayers for men at sea. Corot painted this work during a trip to Normandy, probably in 1830.
Its first known owner was the landscape painter Henri-Joseph Harpignies, whom Corot encouraged from the early 1850s onward.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Honfleur: Calvary
  • Artist: Camille Corot (French, Paris 1796–1875 Paris)
  • Date: ca. 1830
  • Medium: Oil on wood
  • Dimensions: 11 3/4 x 16 1/8 in. (29.8 x 41 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Bernhard Gift, by exchange, 1974
  • Object Number: 1974.3
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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