1869(1869) or 1870(1870)
Oil on canvas
54.3 ?? 37.5 cm (21.38 ?? 14.76 in)
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.