A FLOOD
By JEAN BAPTISTE CAMILLE COROT


A FLOOD
By JEAN BAPTISTE CAMILLE COROT (1796-1875)
IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON

Quite recently, the art treasures of England have been enriched by the addition of several pictures from the brush of Corot, notably by means of the Ionides bequest of some of his minor canvases which are housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the George Salting bequest, which placed the National Gallery in possession of seven masterpieces (including the present subject) in 1910.

Corot was the son of well-to-do parents of the tradesman class. His father was a fashionable barber, who was able to give his son a good education. When he left school, the youth became an assistant in a Paris drapery house, and he followed this calling for eight years. It was only when he was twenty-seven years of age that his father agreed to his abandonment of trade for art; but, having consented, the parent treated his son with generosity, so that he was able to study systematically. Three years later he went to Rome, where he remained for two years, and on his return to Paris he contributed two landscapes to the Salon. It must be confessed that his early work was precise in form and lacking in originality, and that his progress towards fame was terribly slow. Not till he was about forty years of age did his own particular genius assert itself, but from that time his position was assured. Thenceforth he maintained a steady progress towards fame and wealth, and an accumulation of honours was bestowed upon him. He won medals at the Salon in 1833, 1848, 1855, and 1867, received the Legion of Honour in 1846, and became an officer of that order in 1867.

Corot's style is characterised by great breadth combined with delicacy, wherein accuracy of detail is subordinated to the harmony of the general effect. The Wallace Collection possesses one masterpiece from his brush (" Macbeth and the Witches "), and six other fine specimens are to be seen in the Glasgow Art Gallery.

From the book "Famous Paintings" Volume 2 printed in 1913.

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Biography of Corot
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links at ArtCyclopedia


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John Brett
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Arnesby Brown
The River Bank


Joseph Clark
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John Constable
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Jean Baptiste Camille
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The Fisherman's Hut


Jean Baptiste Camille
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A Flood


Leonardo Da Vinci
Monna Lisa


Edouard Detaille
The Dream


Henri Fantin-Latour
Flowers


Thomas Gainsborough
Queen Charlotte


Thomas Gainsborough
The Market Cart


Jean Baptiste Greuze
The Head of a Girl


Jean Baptiste Greuze
Fidelity


James Clark Hook
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Alfred William Hunt
Windsor Castle


Josef Israels
The Shipwrecked Mariner


B.W. Leader
The Stream in Summer-time


Madame Vigee Le Brun
Portrait of the Artist

Alphonse Legros
A Canal With a Fisherman


Anton Mauve
Watering Horses


J.L.E. Meissonier
The Cavalier


Sir J.E. Millais
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Sir J.E. Mallais
My First Sermon


George Morland
The Reckoning


George Morland
The Inside of a Stable


Murillo
The Immaculate Conception
of the Virgin


Alfred Parsons
When Nature Painted
All Things Gay


Ralph Peacock
The Sisters


Rembrandt
Syndics of the
Cloth Merchants' Guild


Guido Reni
"Ecce Homo"


Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Mrs. Richard Hoare
With Her Infant Son


Briton Riviere
The Temptation
in the Wilderness


Dante Gabriel
Rossetti
Day Dreams


John Singer Sargent
Miss Ellen Terry
as Lady Macbeth


Lady Stanley
(Dorothy Tennant)
His First Offence


Jan Steen
Grace Before Meat


Marcus Stone
On the Road from
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Constant Troyon
Watering Cattle


H.S. Tuke
"All Hands to the Pumps"


Velazquez
King Philip IV. of Spain


S.E. Waller
Sweethearts and Wives


Thomas Webster
The Smile

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