Corot
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza: 7 June - 11 September, 2005
The Forum seen from the Farnese Gardens, 1826
Oil on paper mounted on canvas. 30 x 49 cm
Paris, Musée du Louvre, bequest of the artist, 1875
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Corot. Nature, Emotion, Souvenir brings together more than 80 oil paintings in the first retrospective exhibition to be devoted to the artist in Spain. Its intention is to offer a complete and coherent overview of his work through the two genres to which he remained faithful throughout his career: landscape and the figure. The works on show –which include some of the artist’s most legendary paintings, now iconic images– are organised into sections. These are devoted to his early years; to realist landscape (the sections entitled Italy, The Regions of France, and Realism); to nature transformed through the artist’s imagination (the sections entitled From historical to lyrical Landscape and Ville-d’Avray); to the figures, and to the souvenirs (Recollections). The latter are imbued with the poetic aesthetic through which Corot expressed his own emotions.
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