after Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, View of Mantes, 19th Century, Etching

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Vue de Mantes is a beautiful artwork realized by Charles Pinet after a painting by Camille Corot in the middle … Read more Vue de Mantes is a beautiful artwork realized by Charles Pinet after a painting by Camille Corot in the middle of XIX century. This etching represents a natural landscape with some trees and a village. The state of preservation is very good. The sheet is mounted on a cardboard passepartout (34,8 x 32 cm). Camille Corot (Paris, 1796 - Paris 1875) was an influential 19th century French painter who is best known for his landscape paintings. His artistic style inspired many Impressionists. From 1825 to 1828, Corot lived in Italy and honed his artistic skills. In the 1850s, Corot began to paint in a softer style, using a restricted palette of colors. Collectors and dealers were scrambling to buy his work as the 1850s progressed. Corot was in close contact with and influenced by painters of the realistic Barbizon school, such as Jean-François Millet, Théodore Rousseau and Charles-François Daubigny. Corot's landscapes and plein air sketches also served to inspire Impressionist painters. Devoted to painting, Corot continued to work throughout his life, producing more than 3,000 pictures during his career. In the 1860s, he also experimented with photography and printmaking and used a technique called cliché-verre to combine the two. See less