A young woman reclines and reads a book near a stream that winds through a wooded landscape in this horizontal painting. Painted with rich pine green, trees tower along the riverbanks and fill most of the painting. The olive-colored water seems to have cut straight down over time, creating high banks painted with tones of caramel and honey brown. Steel and slate-gray boulders are scattered in intervals near the river. Deep in the hazy blue distance, mountains line the horizon, which comes halfway up the composition. In the lower left corner of the painting, close to the river, the woman lies…
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Forest of Fontainebleau

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796 - 1875)

1834

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 175.6 x 242.6 cm (69 1/8 x 95 1/2 in.) ; framed: 196.9 x 262.9 cm (77 1/2 x 103 1/2 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Chester Dale Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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