Man in Armour (also known as) The Seated Man-at-Arms
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot 1850-1875

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Man in Armour (also known as) The Seated Man-at-Arms
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot 1850-1875
Did you know Corot kept over 300 figure paintings hidden in his studio - works his collectors never saw? He was celebrated for silvery landscapes, misty rivers, trembling leaves. But in private, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot returned again and again to the body. Flesh against earth. Skin catching the only light the forest allows. "Nymph Reclining" is one of these secret devotions - a figure study so luminous it burns a hole through the surrounding dark. That diagonal of pale skin, pearl-white against deep olive, staged like a theater of one. The trees lean in. The shadows press close. And the body simply glows. One arm behind the head, eyes meeting yours directly - no coyness, no apology. Small figures dissolve into the middle ground, pink blossoms blur at the forest edge. Corot wasn't painting mythology. He was painting the conversation between hand and form - the way muscle softens into grass, the way light pools on a hip like water. This wasn't commerce. This was devotion. The painting now lives at the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Geneva, oil on canvas, still carrying that private, reverent energy. Corot, who the world knew as a poet of trees, was quietly, relentlessly, a poet of skin. Quelle: meisterdrucke.com
Dante Alighieri - La Divine Comedie. Illustrations & Talbleaux : Eugene Delacroix ; Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot ; Eugène Deully ; Salvatore Postiglione ; Henry James Holiday ;
Corot, (the artist's father)
"La Cesta de Manzanas" 1863. y fue pintada por Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, (Francia 1796–1875) el paisajista más famoso de Francia. Él y el resto de artistas de la escuela de #Barbizon fueron los culpables del nacimiento del impresionismo, y por consiguiente, de todo el arte moderno tal y como lo conocemos.
Este cuadro es una naturaleza muerta que representa una cesta de manzanas, una botella de vino, un vaso de agua, una hogaza de pan y algunos frutos secos sobre una mesa de madera.
La obra de Corot es un ejemplo de su estilo realista y detallista, con atención al detalle y a la luz. Es conocido por sus paisajes, pero también pintó naturalezas muertas con la misma delicadeza y precisión. La pintura "La Cesta de Manzanas" es una demostración de su habilidad para capturar la belleza de los objetos cotidianos.
La pintura se encuentra en varias colecciones de arte, incluyendo el Museo de Arte de São Paulo @masp
The Solitude. Recollection of Vigen, Limousin by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
source : @cheminer-poesie-cressant
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ôter la peau de la lumière
se retirer des avancées
cueillir le fruit
qui nous rend plus sûr de nos vies
le geste levé qui nous unit aux bras de l’été
le trouble qui nous entoure alors n’est qu’une fuite en avant
nous ne serons jamais plus qu'un pressentiment de chute
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© Pierre Cressant
(dimanche 10 août 2025)
A regular dealers' joke, with slight variation, was that of 700 proven Corots 8,000 are in America.
Alice Beckett, Fakes