This horizontal landscape painting shows a cluster of tan and rust-brown buildings set on a tiny island at the center of a wide brownish-gray river. We look across the surface of the smooth, glassy river, which spans the width of the composition. Most of the buildings on the island are about the same height, perhaps three or four stories high, except for a bell tower that rises a story above the rest, to our right of center. Sage-green dabs along the ground on the island suggest vegetation. Two arched stone bridges span the river on either side of the island to connect to the city beyond.…
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The Island and Bridge of San Bartolomeo, Rome

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

1825/1828

Medium
oil on paper on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 27 x 43.2 cm (10 5/8 x 17 in.) ; framed: 50.8 x 66.4 x 7.6 cm (20 x 26 1/8 x 3 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Patrons' Permanent Fund
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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