Souvenir d'Italia

by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

$800 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

This is a rich impression of the third state of four of Corot's famous landscape etching, Souvenir d'Italia. Jean Baptiste Camille Corot was a founding figure in the Barbizon school, and his transient atmospheric landscapes are often considered precursors of impressionism. Born in Paris, Corot studied under the neoclassical masters Michallon and Bertin, but he advocated a more naturalistic painting technique and pioneered the practice of painting in the open air. Corot was

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