Dense green vegetation surrounds a band of sun-dappled boulders that arc shallowly across this horizontal landscape painting. Just to our left of center and on our side of the boulders are several slender tree trunks. The area beyond the boulders is a haze of loosely painted moss and pine green. The tree trunks and rocks are painted in tones of sable, peanut, sand, and dark brown. The artist signed the lower left, “COROT.”
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Rocks in the Forest of Fontainebleau

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

1860/1865

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 46 x 59 cm (18 1/8 x 23 1/4 in.) ; framed: 65.4 x 78.7 cm (25 3/4 x 31 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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