The Secret Armoire : Corot's Figure Paintings and the World of Reading
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
3777438413
ISBN-13
9783777438412
Publisher
Hirmer Verlag
Imprint
Hirmer Verlag
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 10th, 2011
Print length
128 Pages
Weight
980 grams
Dimensions
23.20 x 28.60 x 1.70 cms
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Focusing on Corot's paintings and drawings, this book provides a key to his creative output in the genre of figure painting.
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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