The Secret Armoire
Corot’s Figure Paintings and the World of Reading
9783777438412
Distributed for Hirmer Publishers
The Secret Armoire
Corot’s Figure Paintings and the World of Reading
While best know for his landscapes, French painter Camille Corot nonetheless left in his wake a considerable number of rarely exhibited yet highly sought figure paintings. And while Corot initially used these oil studies to improve the quality of his free composition for later historical and narrative landscapes, it was not long before his figure paintings became autonomous works, prized for their direct portrayal of emotional and spiritual states.
Standing out in Corot’s creative output is the remarkable oil painting A Girl Reading. This volume puts this impressive painting into context with a variety of Corot’s paintings and drawings that both shed light on the role of reading that is characteristic of his work and provide the first representative overview of the artist’s works inspired by the genre as a whole. Included are essays on Corot as a figure painter and thirty full-color, extensively annotated examples of his work.
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Reviews
Table of Contents
Introduction and Acknowledgments
Mariantonia Reinhard-Felice
Essays
Corot the Figure Painter
Vincent Pomarède
Figure and Landscape in Corot’s Work
Oskar Bätschmann
The Book of Nature: Thoughts on Corot’s Readers
Mariantonia Reinhard-Felice
The Charm of Dress: Corot and Traditional Italian Costume
Kerstin Richter
Catalogue
Biography
Vincent Pomarède
Bibliography
Index of Works by Corot
Mariantonia Reinhard-Felice
Essays
Corot the Figure Painter
Vincent Pomarède
Figure and Landscape in Corot’s Work
Oskar Bätschmann
The Book of Nature: Thoughts on Corot’s Readers
Mariantonia Reinhard-Felice
The Charm of Dress: Corot and Traditional Italian Costume
Kerstin Richter
Catalogue
Biography
Vincent Pomarède
Bibliography
Index of Works by Corot
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