The world of Fontainebleau by Camille CorotIn Fontainebleau, Corot confronts oaks, sandstone, quarries and rural figures: the forest becomes a life-size workshop where precise observation and historical composition respond to each other.
1796 - 1875Life of Camille Corot
Paris, Fontainebleau, Barbizon, Bas-Bréau, Chailly and Ville-d'AvrayMain homes
Oil, drawing, engraving, study on the motif, historical landscape, forest, rock and rural figurePractical
° 8,000Paintings, landscapes, portraits, figures, drawings, engravings and studies created by Corot, overall estimate
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Around 1822 -1874 · Forest, rock, quarry and study on the motif
In Fontainebleau, Corot confronts oaks, sandstone, quarries and rural figures: the forest becomes a life-size workshop where precise observation and historical composition respond to each other.
Camille Corot frequented the Fontainebleau forest in the 1820s, before and after her first trip to Italy. The site offers exceptional diversity: large oaks from Bas-Bréau, sandstone chaos, abandoned quarries, edges, peasant houses and workers' paths. Corot paints on the motif in order to study the light, the structure of the trunks and the relationship between rock, sky and vegetation. Some studies maintain the frankness of an outdoor session; others become more constructed exhibition paintings. The Fontainebleau Forest presented at the Salon of 1834 belongs to the historical landscape, a category which associates an observed place with a narrative ambition. Lumberjacks, shepherd or artist passing among the rocks not only serves as a ladder: their activity places the forest in a real social life. Corot is not entirely confused with Barbizon's school, but he shares with the painters who are there bring together the choice of landscape as a major subject. Fontainebleau thus becomes a laboratory between classical tradition and modernity of direct gaze. The "Fontainebleau by Camille Corot" selection notably compares Bûcheronnes to foot of a large oak tree and Peasants' House in Fontainebleau. Its reading favors atmosphere.
Fontainebleau gives Corot a natural architecture: the trunk carries the vertical, the sandstone constructs the foreground and the light opens the passage towards the sky.
Course & style
Journey, subjects and pictorial language
First studies before Italy
Corot learns to build directly in front of oak, rock and clearing in the light of Fontainebleau. This milestone illuminates the "Fontainebleau by Camille Corot" collection, favoring atmosphere.
Return from Italy and Salon of 1834
The Roman experience reinforces a clear composition where local study can become historical landscape.
Returns, quarries and forest experienced
Lumberjacks, shepherds, houses and sandstone chaos multiply the relationships between observed nature and human presence.
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Trunk
Vertical or inclined, the large tree frames the view and distributes the plans with architectural rigor. This line guides a reading of "Fontainebleau by Camille Corot" centered on the atmosphere.
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Sandstone
The rocks of Fontainebleau give a clear, irregular and immediately recognizable mass in the foreground.
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Figure
Lumberjack, shepherd or artist measures the scale of the site and recalls the social uses of the forest.
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Study
The key in front of the pattern captures precise light before any transformation into a workshop composition.
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Six readings specific to Fontainebleau by Camille Corot
Works, visual language and historical landmarks make up a route exclusively devoted to Fontainebleau by Camille Corot.
Work and big tree01
Lumberjacks at the foot of a large oak tree
The monumental oak organizes the space while the workers give scale and social reality to the undergrowth.
Landmark work by Fontainebleau by Camille Corot. Reading of "Fontainebleau by Camille Corot" through the atmosphere.Inhabit the forest02
Peasants' house in Fontainebleau
Rural construction is part of the trees and reminds us that Fontainebleau is also a lived territory.
Landmark work by Fontainebleau by Camille CorotSandstone chaos03
Rocks of the Fontainebleau forest
The light blocks build the foreground and contrast their mass with the lighter movement of the foliage.
Landmark work by Fontainebleau by Camille CorotNature and extraction04
Abandoned sandstone quarry
The cutting of the land reveals the history of human labor within a landscape taken up by vegetation.
Landmark work by Fontainebleau by Camille CorotStyle05
Trunk
Vertical or inclined, the large tree frames the view and distributes the plans with architectural rigor. This line guides a reading of "Fontainebleau by Camille Corot" centered on the atmosphere.
Reading key for Fontainebleau by Camille CorotStyle06
Sandstone
The rocks of Fontainebleau give a clear, irregular and immediately recognizable mass in the foreground.
Reading key for Fontainebleau by Camille Corot
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