was a French landscape painter and printmaker in etching. Corot was the leading painter of the Barbizon school of France in the mid-nineteenth century. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast output simultaneously references the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipates the plein-air innovations of Impressionism.
The Bridge and Castel Sant'Angelo with the Cuploa of St. Peter's 1826-27
Medium oil on paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions 26.7 x 43.2 cm (10.5 x 17 in)
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