Italian Landscape. Artist: Camille Corot (French, Paris 1796-1875 Paris). Dimensions: 5 x 10 5/8 in. (12.7 x 27 cm). Date: ca. 1825-28.
At the age of twenty-nine, three years after choosing to become a painter, Corot left Paris for his first Italian sojourn (1825-28). In Rome he joined a growing number of artists who formed one of the earliest schools of open-air landscape painting. Corot devoted much of his energy to small views of Rome and studies, like this one, of the surrounding countryside.