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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875):
Lago di Piediluco, Umbria
A403; oil on canvas; 22 x 41 cm.
Stamped: VENTE COROT.
Presented by Sir Michael Sadler in memory of Lady Sadler, though The Art Fund, 1931; WA1931.2.
Robaut 1905, no. 123; Tinterow et al. 1996, no. 25.
Painted on a warm summer's day in 1826 from a site overlooking the lake of Piediluco in the district of Terni, north of Rome. Corot used this sketch as a model for the background of two paintings of the 1860s, Italian Landscape with Morning Sun (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles) and Souvenir of Italy (Corcoran Gallery, Washington).
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Information derived from the Ashmolean Museum's Complete Illustrated Catalogue of Paintings.